I need to vent.

I like this forum. I do, I spend a good bit of time here. It's a nice community and shows some terrific modelling.

It may be the hot weather we've been having, but...

Why when a new model is announced is it swiftly followed by twice as many negative comments as positive ones? - even when many of the comments apply to existing versions of the same model.

Then there's the comments along the lines of "I won't be buying one - wrong colour/wrong era/wrong number/wrong newspaper on the drivers desk". Great, thanks for letting me know - that's added nothing to the discussion.

Bamboozlement - a number of times questions have been asked, detailed replies have resulted followed by the original question asker coming back with "Erm, thanks but I don't understand a word of what's been said". Often a reply is offered aimed more appropriately to the OPs knowledge level which is great. However, further advanced replies still are still made, which while correct will still be way over the head of the OP and only confuse further.

It's really easy to reply to threads. But pause. Think. Does what I'm about to say add anything useful? Will what I'm about to post confuse rather than clarify? If I'm posting something negative, does it really need to be said? If I do think it needs to be said, has someone already said it?

What are the first and third vehicles behind the Clayton please?

No need to apologise Martin @port perran , it would be very boring if we all liked the same thing! But it is interesting how music often draws different emotions and reactions from individual listeners, much like other art forms.

Tim

Quote from: Newportnobby on August 05, 2026, 10:28:13 PM

Quote from: Moonglum on August 05, 2026, 09:28:14 PMI give up... I bet Mick @Newportnobby likes it!

I did, but prefer the version on Seconds Out with 2 drummers instead of 1½

@port perran
Maybe this will chime more with you........

Sorry Mick @Newportnobby it's a  again to that although it is, as you say, a bit "chimey".

And sorry Tim @Moonglum, I was a little too harsh and flippant in being dismissive of your live track so I offer my apologies.

I'm sure Genesis are/were a superb band but none of their work really strikes a chord with me I'm afraid.

British N Gaugers are a bit morose.

This strikes me as great news!!

Personally I thought it was an excellent set of releases, Bachmann showing commitment to the scale. Even if a 37/7 is not what you are after, it's clear many other 37 variants are going to follow.

Appreciate I am new to the hobby so only just starting to build my collection, but the fact my wishlist from releases from over the last 18 months is very long suggests to me Bachmann are doing something right. I get that people who have been in the hobby far longer than me will have less gaps to fill, but I do feel Bachmann get a hard deal sometimes.

Quote from: jpendle on August 05, 2026, 10:33:33 PMI'm not sure that CL37's count as "modern" these days 

Quite amazing that some of them have now operated as long with private operators as with British Rail in all its forms.

I think the tooling they've done would have allowed them to do 601 in ROG livery. Admittedly that's now 501 in British steel blue, but a little surprised they've overlooked it. Also somewhat happy as it's the one Mercig did for me!

The Bachmann chassis for the diesels were the big initial improvement I think, although still with terrible gears and while the BO-BO chassis was great they messed up the pickups on the others quite badly.

Seemed to take the Dapol 14xx and 73 to kick them up into actually fixing the look a bit.

My Minitrix 47 is still a better runner than anything I've had out of Bachmann or Dapol and it's running on dirty track is far better because of the weight and design.

Quote from: Cols on August 05, 2026, 11:33:57 PM... ex-Poole/via China/Bachmann Prairie tank, but the only improvement that I could see was the new finer profile wheels

Whilst production of the Poole tooling in China did tighten up tolerances and finishes I always felt the finer flanges just made all the wheels look too small, especially front bogies    

I'd already abandoned British N by then, though I did buy a Dapol 14xx and autocoach as it was cute and my example is quite controllable.  I wasn't impressed by their 45xx but did like the 73.  I've not been impressed with other Dapol steamers that have come my way - nice finish but indifferent running.  To be honest it wasn't until I got hold of a Bachmann Tornado that I started to come round to the idea that British N was finally starting to catch up with European brands. Not enough to lure me away from Fleischmann and Minitrix etc.  though.