Dear God, the prices!

Mar 18, 2010 3 Replies
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I am much taken with some of the german HO models now available, and the quality and variety seems to knock our locl product into several cocked hats.



But the pricing is a bit high. Paying two or three hundred euros for a well-detailed and well-researched loco is one thing, but have a look at this page here:

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for a pair of bolster wagons? Do the brakes work, or something?



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for three beer vans?



Am I missing something? These aren't boxes of 10 are they?


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"bobharvey" wrote

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EUR520 for three beer vans?

I'm assuming they're HO-scale? Certainly the quality appears outstanding. I'm wondering whether they're hand-made? Certainly as pre-grouping items they'll only be manufactured in very small quantities. Even a standard Trix Bavarian r-t-r 4-wheel wagon is in excess of GBP30.00 on Gaugemaster's price list.

John.

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It looks like a small specialist manufacturer. If you think these are expensive check out Micro Metakit for factory painted, German-built brass.

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Bavaria is a specialist manufacturer (or perhaps an importer these days)=

of very accurate, assembled, etched brass and lost-wax casting model wag= ons of relatively obscure (Bavarian) models. Germans expect to pay for such things.

Greg.P. NZ.

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