MREx Poll 2005...

Yes John but in your case its a sign your getting better......

I did say I'd probably left some out. I'm surprised it's only the one!

TOS

Maybe we are, but certainly down here the few quality southern models we do have are good sellers. The Q1 was a bit of an odd decision as its appeal was so limited (in terms of what trains it worked, how many examples there were, etc). For instance, I have bought over the last few years about 5 or 6 Light Pacifics and a few N's. Give me a good T9 and I'll buy 4 or 5. If theres a decent M7 I'll have several. OK, not all at once - the wallet wont stretch that far - but there will be plenty of sales which they arn't getting at the moment.

As for ALL new releases being Southern, I doubt the manufacturers will make every new release a southern one, but we need a lot just to catch up!

John

LNER classification for Stanier-designed 2-8-0 (aka 8F) when that company owned a number of them.

As above, but for Riddles-designed 2-8-0 (aka WD)

TOS

In message , Tim Illingworth may have written...

Cheers Tim, I'd forgotten the LNER had a few of the during and after the war. I was getting my class numbers mixed up and thinking of NE and GN

In message , John Sullivan writes

Surely white is the absence of colour, black being the combination of all colours?

No, white IS a colour, (true) black is nothing, to put is simply.

Colour is something that reflects certain fractions of the light spectrum and hence the colour that it returns IYSWIM), black (as in true black) OTOH isn't reflecting *any* light and thus no colour is returned - that is why Space is black but planets show colour.

Only when printing. White light is a combination of equal amounts of light of all other colours/frequencies.

(kim)

This year's poll is for 00 scale only :o)

(kim)

Now that you mention it, how many RTR 00-scale LNWR models are there available?

(kim)

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Is there a problem with form of cassis construction for RTR?

I am told it is very expensive to produce.

(kim)

Makes it difficult to install DCC chips, or so I'm led to believe.

In message , Kenny writes

No, it's the other way around. See any physics textbook on light.

Actually the Q1 is not an odd decision at all, but a prime example of what happens when you have polls of what models the readership would like to see produced. And the natural follow-on from that is you might well get some other locos produced that seem to be an odd decision to yourself but which are "what the public asked for".

I'm sure an Oerlikon LNWR EMU will make it better. Really.

Mark.

"John Sullivan" wrote

More likely to be *what the public you asked, asked for* rather than a reliable consensus. I can't believe for one moment that MREmag is representative of the entire model railway hobby when it so clearly is aimed specifically at the collector rather than the modeller, and both groups are

John.

Bugger, knew there was something important I forgot to add to my list!

You'll always be building your oddball Q1 from a kit for example.

Oops, bad example...let me think of another one...