The angry thread

[Bealman]

Or do railway modelling. 

[Bealman]

7.15 here and I've just seen what I presume is a gov funded TV advert, reminding us to wear seatbelts.

[austinbob]

7.15 here and I've just seen what I presume is a gov funded TV advert, reminding us to wear seatbelts.

Jeez - what goes on in your model railway room - seatbelts??? Whooow. 

[Bealman]

I hammer the Blue Pullman 

[Graham]

not sure if this should be in this thread, but it made me angry so here goes.
Just went to renew my subscription to Model Rail, I have been buying this since it became a standalone magazine. I purchased the subscription using my UK credit card and was charged in £. I tried to renew the subscription but it will only show me A$ now.
Now here is the beef.
In £ it is £26 to renew but in A$ it is A$62.99.
At todays exchange rate £26 should be A$44
there is no VAT as the delivery is outside of the EU, so as with all other purchases it should be £26 less VAT, SO WHY am I being charged an additional A$19 just to read the magazine upside down.
as an old advert over here once said "NOT HAPPY JAN!!!"
Of course it could be that Bauer media need to recoup the costs of the lost defamation court case against Rebel Wilson.

[zopadooper]

I cannot comment about the exchange rate but there is no UK VAT on either printed materials or postage so that part of your gripe is unfounded.

[silly moo]

I too have subscribed to Model Rail from the first issue but now get it in digital form. It is more expensive to get an overseas digital subscription (as opposed to a UK digital one) from Bauer despite there being no postage involved!

I now get it a much better price from Pocketmags.

And while I'm in grumble mode, why is it that new magazine subscribers get free gifts while those who have subscribed for years get nothing?     No gifts stuck to the front of magazines if you live overseas either.

[PeteW]

I cannot comment about the exchange rate but there is no UK VAT on either printed materials or postage so that part of your gripe is unfounded.

But VAT is levied on digital products, which is one reason why ebooks are often more expensive than the printed equivalent.

[dannyboy]

I do not buy UK magazines here in Ireland. Not only do the importers (?) seem to just pluck a number out of the air for the exchange rate, 9% VAT is also added. A magazine costing £4.00p, will cost something like €6.00 . The exchange rate at the moment is about 1.14 and if you then add 9%, the magazine should cost about £5.00p. The phrase 'rip off Ireland' is still used here! I wait until I go into the north to buy my magazines.

[Skyline2uk]

I am sooooo  with myself

I was sat happily putting the etched name plates onto my Class 60 "Swindon Dalesman".

All going fine until I got to put the last plate on and it, plus the fret, are nowhere to be seen.

Turned the room upside down looking for it. No luck.

All the advice about storing small parts etc and I just loose it. 

Does anybody have a spare they could part with?

Skyline2uk

[austinbob]

I am sooooo  with myself

I was sat happily putting the etched name plates onto my Class 60 "Swindon Dalesman".

All going fine until I got to put the last plate on and it, plus the fret, are nowhere to be seen.

Turned the room upside down looking for it. No luck.

All the advice about storing small parts etc and I just loose it. 

Does anybody have a spare they could part with?

Skyline2uk

Its just so frustrating when something like that happens. You KNOW its there somewhere but it might just as well be on the moon. 

As an aside, can I ask what you stick your nameplates on with? I've got a couple to stick on to a Peco Patriot from Jubilee conversion. Bit wary about superglue, thought about using a couple of small dabs of paint. Any advice appreciated.

Hope you find a replacement nameplate for you loco. Of course, Murphy's law says that as soon as you get a replacement you'll find the original. Oh well that's life.

[silly moo]

Look on your clothes and the bottom of your shoes.

I suppose you could always give the loco another identity on the other side, as you only see one side at once. Aparrently some people used to paint their coaches different colors on different sides, two coaches for the price of one 

My bugbear is transfers, unless I have spares I usually manage to make a real mess, I've got a couple of locos that I haven't applied transfers to because I'm so worried about making a mess.

I hope the plate turns up eventually.

[Skyline2uk]

I am sooooo  with myself

I was sat happily putting the etched name plates onto my Class 60 "Swindon Dalesman".

All going fine until I got to put the last plate on and it, plus the fret, are nowhere to be seen.

Turned the room upside down looking for it. No luck.

All the advice about storing small parts etc and I just loose it. 

Does anybody have a spare they could part with?

Skyline2uk

Its just so frustrating when something like that happens. You KNOW its there somewhere but it might just as well be on the moon. 

As an aside, can I ask what you stick your nameplates on with? I've got a couple to stick on to a Peco Patriot from Jubilee conversion. Bit wary about superglue, thought about using a couple of small dabs of paint. Any advice appreciated.

Hope you find a replacement nameplate for you loco. Of course, Murphy's law says that as soon as you get a replacement you'll find the original. Oh well that's life.

Thanks Bob

Of course, this is the biggest irony of it all, thinking of submitting a simple "how to" article to the NGS on this subject.

Chapter one will now be KEEP ALL BITS IN A BAG / BOX"

I use Delux Materials glue and glaze and a cocktail stick.

It's reasonablely fogiving glue which gives you time to adjust and dries clear.

Any obvious excess is easily removed carefully with a cocktail stick as well.

Skyline2uk

[Bob Tidbury]

I use a thin coat of satin varnish and put the plate on just as the varnish dries ,then a thin coat over the top of the plate to stop it from tarnishing.
This works for me.
Bob Tidbury

[Trainfish]

My advice would be to build a roundy roundy stand in the middle layout because then you only need 1 nameplate. Problem solved