3DStewart

The Price Marking Order 1999 requires accurate price labels for retail sales, which must include VAT. Whether this applies on-line I don't know, and it doesn't apply to advertisements. General guidance here: https://www.gov.uk/product-labelling-the-law Failure to comply can result in prosecution by Trading Standards. I don't know whether the customer has any remedy against the retailer, other than the threat of reporting them to Trading Standards if they don't honour the displayed price. I've certainly had retailers reduce checkout prices to what's labelled on the shelves when challenged. In one case by £50!

I believe there are laws against displaying an incorrect price in a shop. You have to honour the displayed price. I've no idea whether they apply to online sales. Even if the law is on your side, what do you think are the chances of mounting a successful challenge for a small amount from the far side of the world? As my father would have said: "Life is too short for such things."

Potentially, yes. One would make a good second car for my family to do all the relatively short trips required. The question is what size of home charger? I'm tempted to go for a 22kW one, but that would require increasing the supply capacity to my house which adds to the cost but may be good for future proofing, as future bigger batteries will require more charging. I read there are 400kW chargers available, but I think it will be a while before they come to domestic supplies!

I was unable to get a replacement middle and back exhaust for my Fiat Multipla - sorry sir none in the country - so my local garage arranged to get a bespoke stainless steel one made by a local exhaust fabricator. Although not cheap (£400 fitted) it only took three days to have made and will easily outlive the car.

Correct scaling with Continental and US rolling stock would be a first for British model railways, the Fleischmann HO Warship excepted. It has the potential to succeed but will need the support of other British outline manufacturers to be really successful.

Yes, visible now. Thanks. That's a good build.

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It's worth remembering that most ND is on a sliding scale. For some it's minor, for others it's major. I've been diagnosed with dyslexia, but I consider it mild and most of the time I don't think about it. It helped at school as I got longer in public exams which definitely saved the day in a couple of subjects. My current employer is supportive, and I've been given a number of IT aids to assist with it, but if I'm honest I don't use them as I find they don't really help. That's partly because I've spent decades working to improve my weaknesses, which have deceased as a result I would caution against using a diagnosis as an excuse. By all means take any help available, but as with most human frailty its effect can be reduced by training and practice.

I pronounce it in a way that rhymes with heckle. I always thought of them as transfers, because that's what Airfix told me they were called. However, when I started working in the injection moulding industry in 1980 the only term used was decal. A decal to them was any pre-printed design that was fixed to a plastic moulding, usually self-adhesive, but sometimes heat bonded.

I think you'd be unlucky to be marked down for that. I doubt many armour judges - even at the Nationals - know from memory the correct number of bolt heads on a Cromwell wheel! No one can be expert on everything. My experience of judges is that they know their subject expertise is quite narrow and are reluctant to apply it to one model when they can't apply it to others. Sure, gross errors will be marked down (e.g., wrong number of propellor blades), but less visible matters will usually be given the benefit of the doubt. That's not to say that caring about such things is wrong. Research and attempting prototypical faithfulness are just as much part of the hobby as anything else.

At least they don't need painting. I'd suggest some parts need gluing if you want to handle them. My sons had a couple for presents in the past. They seemed to enjoy them, but like many Lego type toys, once they had assembled them, they didn't show much interest in coming up with their own designs.

Any model is a simplification of reality and will always be to some degree inaccurate. I'd make the obvious point that none of the aircraft models I have made have ever flown under their own power, so that's a large inaccuracy to start with! We all have to accept some inaccuracy in the models we produce. What type and degree of inaccuracy is a personal matter. On my death bed I think I'm unlikely to say: "I wish I'd made that F-4 canopy a bit more bulged."

So was Squadron in the US, but it didn't stop them going the way of the pear. BTW, the Squadron name, brand and website was bought up and so it still exits, but not as the original company.

Setting up a museum on a site with a six year lease doesn't seem a good idea to me. By the sounds of it Cornwall Council have already given them a one year extension to allow time to relocate, but for whatever reason that didn't happen.

I'm not familiar with the museum, but I assume the Council feel the land they own around the airport will better serve the people if it's used in another way. Active aviation perhaps? If the planes have value (historical, collectability, etc) somebody will arrange to transport them elsewhere. If they don't have value is it really necessary to keep them?

The psychology of kit hoarding, that would be an interesting area of research. I think another psychological reason to buy is a fear that the future will not have enjoyment in it, so we have to create a store of things that made us happy in the past.

I love models with working features and this is the daddy of them all! Do the bombs drop as well?

Other reasons for buying a kit: I know I can sell it at a profit. It is an outstanding example of its type and it's alway pleasurable to own things of quality. I may never see it again. It makes my collection of Italian experimental WWII jet-piston hybrids complete. I always wanted one as a child, but never got one. I've driven/flown/sailed in a real one. It brings back exciting memories of a film I've seen. I can show it off to the model club. Joe will be happy if I give it to him as a present. It brings back happy memories. I was drunk and on eBay. Product research, so my aftermarket accessories will fit.

You've missed out the most obvious one, which is that buying it makes me happy!

My third son got his three A levels, but perhaps not at the grades he was expecting. Not having done real GCSEs didn't help, as these were the first true public exams he had to do and I think his inexperience in live exam technique played a part. Schools closed due to covid didn't help either.

Hornby own all the tools for their 1:24 kits. Some subjects are more successful than others. I've seen both the Mosquito and Typhoon being sold at what I thought were relatively large discounts some time after release, so probably not a case of too few being made.

I'm intrigued by all the UK press coverage of 'empty' resevoirs with reports such as "Ladybower Reservoir was at 54.5% of its capacity as of 8 August". The dimwitted hacks don't seem to have graspsed that a resevoir that was much fuller after one of the driest summers in nearly 100 years, would have been oversized, a waste of money and an unnecssarly large impact on the environment.

A Hastings? Really? If Airfix produce a Hastings I'll sell my Hornby shares as they clearly have a financial death wish.

Generally later variants, simply because they are usually 'better' than what went before them: faster, stronger, better armed, more aerodynamic, more reliable, whatever.

As far as I can see no one cares any longer in the UK. It's become like a cold, or maybe flu if you get it bad. Covid is cancelled. It's time to get on with life.