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    Windows 10 issues, help requested if possible

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    You could try booting into safe mode, methods 2 & 4 in the link below may be the easiest to access, It will load a very basic version of windows.

     

    From there you should have access to various diagnostic tools e.g 'trouble shooter'

     

    Even a simple restart from safe mode might by itself be sufficient to clear the issue.

     

    safe mode link

     

    Note: Whlst the link does give free advice it does end with essentilly a promotion of a posible, 'paid for', software solution that may or not work. There are many other software vendors doing the same. I have no connection with any of them and have never purchased any of their 'solutions' to achieve what can usually done for free.

    model shops in and around Liverpool.

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    On 13/12/2021 at 19:23, pigsty said:

    Hattons in Widnes is pretty good; don't know if that's close enough for you?  It sells itself as a model railway shop, but there's kits too - I got my 1/48 Javelin from them at a good price a few years ago.

     

    With Hatton's you really have to know what you wan't BEFORE you visit as there's little on display to browse. It is after all an internet / warehousing operation. There's never much in the way of non-railway kits, or railway kits for that matter and what they do have tends to be second hand.

     

     

     

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    I don’t understand this universe any more

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    5 hours ago, Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies said:

    The most expensive software packages going can estimate the proportions of pigment required for a CIELAB match out of a high-grade paint dispensing machine, but it's seldom bang on, so you have to take a sample at controlled film thickness, dry it out, spectrophotometer measure it and compare the results with the target. The experienced colour matching operator can then add additional pigment in minimum doses until a second, third or even fourth sample matches the target closely enough. If it's for a commercial customer who may need more, they'll then save the final formulation on that machine's database - and it'll be valid until a fresh batch of pigments are loaded into the carousel in the machine. Whether another batch after fresh pigment goes in also matches depends on how consistent your pigment supplier is. Even if the pigment is exactly the same colour, there can be small (but big enough!) differences in the staining power of it so 1ml per litre may have a different effect now than it did with the last batch.

     

    Thanks for the insight it begs the question that If the best software, a high grade paint dispensing machine and an experienced colour matching operator can only achieve a 'close enough' match under controled conditions doesn't it make a mockery of all those arguments discussions around exact matches to known swatches.

    If as little as 1 mm can make a 'big enough' difference doesn't it also negate any claim that there was no difference between paint batches mixed in less less controllable times (WW2).

     

    6 hours ago, Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies said:

    It is possible to buy machines pre-loaded with BS381C formulations already on the database, but it costs (a lot) more than just buying the basic RAL formulations.

     

    Are the machine German and come with a built in RAL licence for the initial database? The additional fees for BS381c probably being the licence fee (plus a suppliers mark up) to BSI to enforce their IP/copyright fees.

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    Brilliant Cover for Modelling - I’m a Wine Merchant

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    Makes a good headline but it's been all over the internet for the last 3 years & on the cover of the model railway magazines for the last 12 months, she's known all the time and has only 'put up with it' as she's getting a holiday out of it when the show closes on the 19th.

     

    Just like BR in the 1980's

        4 lines,

        1 train every 15 minutes (that's total not 1 per line)

        Derailments & breakdowns galore

        More staff than customers

    Full of interest as you can tell from the pictures in the report. :yawn::sleep_1:

    Truely not a case of bigger is better.

    Hornby news

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    On 03/12/2021 at 11:08, Toe said:

    The easy answer is to do the manufacturing here, but then the easy comeback to that is it'll cost more....

    It's not the easy comeback, to Hornby, it is the only correct comercial answer at this time. The Hornby board will be monitorng all options especialy considering the hike in container costs and weighing these against the one off costs of transfering operation back. Production wasn't moved first to China and subsequently India for fun.

     

    Whilst you're able to pay a little more how much of a 'little more' would the average Airfix customer accept? 

                      80%? as one UK manufacturer of plastic storage boxes is hiking prices next year.

     

     

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    Folding modelling table - any suggestions?

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    On 23/09/2021 at 16:41, Neil.C said:

    Thanks for your varied suggestions Gents.

     

    I've had a look around and ordered a foldaway camping table from Amazon at £21.99 including postage which should hopefully do the trick.

     

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    Picked up similar @ Lidl earlier in the year as a decorators table pack of 3 for £40 with adjustable height legs.

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    Is Modelling Art?

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    Surely Art, like beauty, is in the eye & heart of the beholder, not what we're fed by critics.

     

    I can appreciate Constable's Haywain as a good painting, understand what emotions Turner was trying to express in his Rain, Steam & Speed but they don't come across to me as something special, i.e. as art.

     

    When I see things like this link then I can see Art in modelling.

     

     

    Import Tax when buying from abroad

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    Rules for personal imports have been changing worlwide as Governments try and redress the loss of revenue caused by it citizens purchasing on-line which is the real root cause of the change.

     

    Timing of the UK's implementation was such that it was done at the same time as other changes.

     

    I believe changes for personal imports into Australia & N.Z. were put in place around 2 years ago.

     

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    Panzer Models has anyone used them recently as 10 days after placing order no comms no post come

    in AFV WWII

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    On 27/11/2021 at 22:11, Das Abteilung said:

    Information required by law to be publicly disclosed can never be claimed to be commercially confidential or in any way protected. The exact opposite, in fact.

    I agree that a registered company cannot withold its own, publically required, information but that resposibility only lies with that registered company. Companies Act does not extend to the registered company's suppliers, including website designers. Any information that is held by it's suppliers, is commercial confident information and can be witheld by the supplier.

     

    Of course Panzer Models may not be registered company and thus not subject to the act. There is no legal requirement to register with Companies House, or other equivalent.

     

    As I say good luck getting the info from Article Consultancy.

     

    To anyone intending to purchase, from any source, do your research and assess the risks before placing that order.

     

    Panzer Models has anyone used them recently as 10 days after placing order no comms no post come

    in AFV WWII

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    No place/country of registration, no company registration number, no terms & conditions the Article website also appears to be lacking in some of the legally required info.

     

    Good luck getting that info I suspect Article will hide behind the argument that the information is commercially confident. It may take involvement from one of  the regulatory bodies for them to provide it.

     

     

    What model has nobody kitted that you REALLY want to see?

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    On 22/11/2021 at 11:24, ckw said:

    I wonder if the solution if for companies (esp. short run makers) to take a 'kick starter' approach? Basically if you wanted the model produced, you had to put your money where your mouth is. If enough interest is shown, it gets made. If not, you get your money back. Of course I can see potential issues around expected quality.

     

    Cheers

     

    Colin

     

    On 22/11/2021 at 11:30, Graham Boak said:

    As a potential subscriber to such an approach. the main problem I can see is of confidence that you will get your money back.  The amount concerned, and the element of enthusiasm, is likely to make the matter of otherwise lost interest insignificant.

    Few stories of such ventures in the Model Railway quarter that have failed with 'investors' losing significant sums.

     

    For me It'd have to be a F-50 (not the Ferrari variety)

    Airfix quality control

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    On 21/11/2021 at 13:37, alt-92 said:

    I do however have my doubts it is all that easy as some of you assert - after all, if it was that easy it'd be done by now.

    QC is based on statistics and does not call for a fixed rate of sampling which by itself is only part of the story.

     

    Instead the sampling rate is determined by a number of factors based upon the size of the production run (the larger the run the smaller the % sampled and inspected), the severity of the defect, the cost of inspection and the economics of dealing with complaints and providing replacement parts. This information is used to determine both a minimum and a maximum Acceptable Quality Level (AQL). If, during inspection of the determined sample size, the number of defective parts found fall below the minimum the whole batch is accepted, if above the max the whole batch is rejected and if between usually additional sampling is undertaken.

     

    I can virtually guarantee that, as consumers, our inspection rate (100% ?) and AQL (zero defects ?) and that of Airfix, as manufacturer, who's figures are unknown, will differ.

     

    So what's the solution 100% inspection, sadly that's not the answer, 100% manual inspection will only correctly identify around 87% of defective items, not as good as the statistical method. Some defective items will pass as good & some good items rejected as defective. 300% manual inspection gets to correctly identifying just above 99% of defective items, similar to the statistical method. The rates for automated inspection will be substantially better but it is not 100% infallable as stories of foreign objects in food show. Either way it introduces added costs.

     

     

    Do Airfix really have a quality control issue? I guess that depends on which side of the fence you're on. 

         As an individual with a faulty kit,  or as an 'onlooker' weighing up the posted quality complaints against posted quality compliments (do they exist?)  then yes they do.

         As a manufacturer as long as my return's/complaints don't exceed the number I've made provision for then I don't have an issue. If they do then yes I have an issue that needs assessing.

     

    My own assessment: Like others in this thread have also pointed out I've too have a long history of building kits, 40+ years, the majority being Airfix and can recall only three incidents, one a missing part, promptly supplied against the Haldane place slip, one kit short shot, dealt with by a bit of filler & modelling skills, the third a badly warped piece which, upon closer inspection, looked more caused by a previous owner than any producton issue.     On balance I don't see Airfix have a qualty issue.

     

    I've also had issues in the past with Italeri, Revell, Hasegawa and Tamiya each with a similar number of issues as I've experienced with Airfix but a lower build number do they too have quality control issues?

     

     

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