PhoenixII

@Sabrejet all I'll say is .............be careful what you wish for!

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Been told it's 25 years to become a blow in, can't really say how old for curmudgeon status......though I have it on good authority you HAVE previous! Nowt wrong with Leicestershire, please note I said nothing about Leicester! I even employed Gary Linekers cousin.....well, someone had to.... Personally, I tell folk I came up here on missionary work.......

Come on Bob! face it, your just a grumpy old North Yorkshire camugeon.............haven't got a CLUE what Pete the flat lander's @Pete in Lincs excuse is! Paul

Nah, you be fine, he's probably still trying to find the runway....................assuming he found the airfield!

Should have just left it! You've got two 'head, shoulders and body' better publications than your previous employer.........nuff said 👍🏽

Not quite, his solicitors issued a 'cease and desist' order to Border and their prospective agents in regard to the Lancaster moulds. While the Chinese don't (seem to) observe copyright or intellectual property, thinking things may go differently in the Western world....

Hi @savo318 suggest having a look here:- https://www.hobbies.co.uk they do quite a few items of chandlery, may meet with what you have in mind.

Nah, that'll never smooth timber!

+1. Though they DO take perverse pleasure in telling us we're Southern.........cheek!

@SAT69 and @brewerjerry hate to do this to you, the tooling already exists........and has done since before the first 24th Mosquito release, including the two stage merlins........you KNOW where to write!

Hi @treker_ed, for future reference Akzo Noble own both Crown and Dulux paints along with a raft of other companies. Crown used to make all of B&Q own brand paints. This stopped some years ago and Valspar are now the paint of choice for B&Q. Strange that Valspar should go with the RAL system, as their a U.S. based company.

Yup, that was the cause of the 'quality issues', broken mould. Not pie in the sky or hearsay, this was from someone who was in a senior position at Airfix and still helps with new product, last one being the all new Vulcan.

The formulation of 'Klear' was changed due to certain chemicals being on the EU 'naughty' list. North America maintained the old formula for quite some time, and I believe so did Australia / New Zealand. Further to @Stef N. comment, above, this product DOES contain wax, get on 'tinterweb and go to the manufacturers site and down load the COSHH data sheet. The original product didn't contain wax as it started life in the commercial sector. Twenty minutes and it would happily take high foot traffic, with little chance of slips because there was zero wax content. I used to sell it into more than a few pubs, hotels and restaurants in 4x 5ltr cases. Paul

CAN'T be reissued, mould was broken beyond economic repair.

Asking for a friend..............what is the correct address for a person who has declared themselves to be gender neutral........

WHAT??? What swine moved the door in the night?

To put the above to rights, Tan Models went in a different direction, that being work for the Turkish government......... Now, what would common sense have a manufacturer do? Produce a range of kits that 'everybody' will buy, to be followed up with the usual 'wrong scale', 'wrong mark' and all the other dross that gets thrown at most new kits......OR, work for the Government, with guaranteed payments, no hassle and a happy customer? Add to that, the company MD had a massive heart attack a year ago. He IS getting better, and has told me the kits that were promised aren't forgotten, just on the back burner. Will we see them in the fullness of time? I don't know, we will have to wait and see.

@Vince1159 polite answer, NOT a ruddy hope!

There ya go @Vince1159, fixed it for you......

Sarky! It just shows a lack of planning and lack of vocabulary. After all we've managed to start a sentence for decades without revision to what amounts to a pause.

DON'T do it @Macsporran there may be a wee bit too much snow! Ask one of the shop keepers in Aviemore......He was told NOT to travel South on the A9........brake down waggon that unditched him was driven by......Yup, the chap that told him in the first place!

Most QC procedures should check an average of 10% of production. With the short shoting of the relatively old 24th Hurricane I'd be surprised to find there is any being checked. It's very easy, provided its put in place from the start and the checks are carried out, not so much when the grass has been allowed to grow. Possible, but by no means certain that prices would rise, because you offset the transportation costs. You can then reduce the number of problems, which will in turn give a better perception of the company and product. Customers will always complain about something! If you, the seller have well placed faith in what your selling, price is very definitely at the bottom of the list, it may not even enter into the conversation. The one thing to remember is: 'you can please all the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but never all of the people all of the time!'

Quite easily @alt-92, there really is a need for a Hornby office in India, meaning whoever is doing the job is on site. Alternatively move production back to the UK, they proved it can be done and more importantly, it works/worked, certainly as far as production of the Victor was concerned.

.....but @AntPhillips as long as you live longer than their Mother, you get to write your will! Just my musing