Hornby: New series
Discussion
Really looking forward to this..
Hornby: A model world
Starts on 11th October: On Yesterday.
( 10 part series)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hornby+series+on...
Hornby: A model world
Starts on 11th October: On Yesterday.
( 10 part series)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hornby+series+on...
Edited by Milkyway on Tuesday 5th October 11:41
Yes... very thin on any detail
More concerned about the noise it made & its high tech new speaker.
Get the feeling they aren’t going to show much of the manufacturing side & a bit Nerdy.
10 parts... way too long.
More of a car guy anyway, had a train layout, more for my Dad though.
( Wonder if that speaker will go in the Formula - E car)
A plane next week... can’t wait.
Generous: 6/10.
More concerned about the noise it made & its high tech new speaker.
Get the feeling they aren’t going to show much of the manufacturing side & a bit Nerdy.
10 parts... way too long.
More of a car guy anyway, had a train layout, more for my Dad though.
( Wonder if that speaker will go in the Formula - E car)
A plane next week... can’t wait.
Generous: 6/10.
Gutted that I didn't know about that layout in Chester Cathedral before it was closed (only ran until early September). Chester is near to me, and I'd have popped along for a good look at it.
APT was looking good, I can usually see it when I park at Tesco but I hadn't noticed they'd repainted it.
Disappointed that the Hornby test track is so small, I can't help thinking a loop around that outside of that workshop room (or around the outside of the shed where they keep the full-size rolling stock for the forthcoming museum) would be much more useful, and would make things look a lot better for their videos too. The very tight curves always ruin the illusion. I know they need to test on the real-world scenario too, but as they said they're doing more videos a bigger track would be better IMO.
APT was looking good, I can usually see it when I park at Tesco but I hadn't noticed they'd repainted it.
Disappointed that the Hornby test track is so small, I can't help thinking a loop around that outside of that workshop room (or around the outside of the shed where they keep the full-size rolling stock for the forthcoming museum) would be much more useful, and would make things look a lot better for their videos too. The very tight curves always ruin the illusion. I know they need to test on the real-world scenario too, but as they said they're doing more videos a bigger track would be better IMO.
I guess the design detail is down to an design office in China provided by a specification Hornby supply.
Maybe they do not want competitors to learn too much from the programme, that industry seems to be very competitive.
I think the general manager is doing a good job, is he not the ex employee who was rehired to save the company following bad decisions including building a new factory/design office? He seems to know what the market needs and wants to pay for and supply that demand. Deserves to succeed.
Maybe they do not want competitors to learn too much from the programme, that industry seems to be very competitive.
I think the general manager is doing a good job, is he not the ex employee who was rehired to save the company following bad decisions including building a new factory/design office? He seems to know what the market needs and wants to pay for and supply that demand. Deserves to succeed.
Mercdriver said:
I guess the design detail is down to an design office in China provided by a specification Hornby supply.
Maybe they do not want competitors to learn too much from the programme, that industry seems to be very competitive.
I think the general manager is doing a good job, is he not the ex employee who was rehired to save the company following bad decisions including building a new factory/design office? He seems to know what the market needs and wants to pay for and supply that demand. Deserves to succeed.
All the detail design for the models is done in the UK.Maybe they do not want competitors to learn too much from the programme, that industry seems to be very competitive.
I think the general manager is doing a good job, is he not the ex employee who was rehired to save the company following bad decisions including building a new factory/design office? He seems to know what the market needs and wants to pay for and supply that demand. Deserves to succeed.
droopsnoot said:
Gutted that I didn't know about that layout in Chester Cathedral before it was closed (only ran until early September). Chester is near to me, and I'd have popped along for a good look at it.
APT was looking good, I can usually see it when I park at Tesco but I hadn't noticed they'd repainted it.
Disappointed that the Hornby test track is so small, I can't help thinking a loop around that outside of that workshop room (or around the outside of the shed where they keep the full-size rolling stock for the forthcoming museum) would be much more useful, and would make things look a lot better for their videos too. The very tight curves always ruin the illusion. I know they need to test on the real-world scenario too, but as they said they're doing more videos a bigger track would be better IMO.
You'd have been gutted if you had gone !!APT was looking good, I can usually see it when I park at Tesco but I hadn't noticed they'd repainted it.
Disappointed that the Hornby test track is so small, I can't help thinking a loop around that outside of that workshop room (or around the outside of the shed where they keep the full-size rolling stock for the forthcoming museum) would be much more useful, and would make things look a lot better for their videos too. The very tight curves always ruin the illusion. I know they need to test on the real-world scenario too, but as they said they're doing more videos a bigger track would be better IMO.
I went, it was a bloody disgrace.
Feast you eyes on this:
How Is it a disgrace? Please explain, I thought that the picture was the “backstage” part of the set.
What was the front of house like? It looked to me, a complete novice on building model railways, a professionally built set depicting a countryside view. Pete Waterman is not a novice builder and I guess his team were not either.
Please do not take this as insulting, I want to know the reason for your statement. You probably know a lot more about model railway building than me.
What was the front of house like? It looked to me, a complete novice on building model railways, a professionally built set depicting a countryside view. Pete Waterman is not a novice builder and I guess his team were not either.
Please do not take this as insulting, I want to know the reason for your statement. You probably know a lot more about model railway building than me.
Mercdriver said:
How Is it a disgrace? Please explain, I thought that the picture was the “backstage” part of the set.
What was the front of house like? It looked to me, a complete novice on building model railways, a professionally built set depicting a countryside view. Pete Waterman is not a novice builder and I guess his team were not either.
Please do not take this as insulting, I want to know the reason for your statement. You probably know a lot more about model railway building than me.
You are correct, that is the back bit; it's a fair question, I'm not insulted. But you don't need to know anything about model railways (not that I do) to recognise a pile of crap when you see it. What was the front of house like? It looked to me, a complete novice on building model railways, a professionally built set depicting a countryside view. Pete Waterman is not a novice builder and I guess his team were not either.
Please do not take this as insulting, I want to know the reason for your statement. You probably know a lot more about model railway building than me.
But the front bit wasn't much better. It was like it was built out of some spares Pete Waterman had laying around his shed. The front had almost nothing worth looking at either.
We went in, saw the first bit and wondered where the rest of it was. Nope, that was it.
I'd have been embarrassed to have the cheek to charge people for that effort.
Edited by snuffy on Tuesday 2nd November 18:19
Oh, a little less fed up to have missed it then, thanks.
I've a hankering to build something around the outside of my shed if/when I ever "finish" restoring my old cars, and it would have been nice to see something on that scale. A local school used to have a massive layout, but as I was very young when I saw it, I suspect it might not have been as large as I remember. I'll just have to hope that Heaton Lodge Junction comes somewhere close to me, and I find out about it.
I've a hankering to build something around the outside of my shed if/when I ever "finish" restoring my old cars, and it would have been nice to see something on that scale. A local school used to have a massive layout, but as I was very young when I saw it, I suspect it might not have been as large as I remember. I'll just have to hope that Heaton Lodge Junction comes somewhere close to me, and I find out about it.
droopsnoot said:
Oh, a little less fed up to have missed it then, thanks.
It's a pity the one in Llangollen has gone now (not far from Chester of course). We went many years ago, they had several different ones and they were amazing. It was shared with the Doctor Who Exhibition, now sadly all closed.snuffy said:
It's a pity the one in Llangollen has gone now (not far from Chester of course). We went many years ago, they had several different ones and they were amazing. It was shared with the Doctor Who Exhibition, now sadly all closed.
I don't remember there being one there, but I've only really started going in the last ten years or so. I've been to a couple of their Classic Transport Weekend events, I recall that the one immediately before I started going had a Hornby display somewhere but, again, before I went. I think there was supposed to be something at the most recent one in 2019, but I didn't see it somehow.I recall two - one was at Alton Towers, the other was in a shed near a station in Blackpool. I've never liked fairground rides so when I went to Alton Towers as a kid the model railway was great for me. And I just have a vague memory of the one in Blackpool, it was not near the station we arrived at, and I recall it being upstairs. Other than that, I have no detail.
droopsnoot said:
I don't remember there being one there, but I've only really started going in the last ten years or so. I've been to a couple of their Classic Transport Weekend events, I recall that the one immediately before I started going had a Hornby display somewhere but, again, before I went. I think there was supposed to be something at the most recent one in 2019, but I didn't see it somehow.
I recall two - one was at Alton Towers, the other was in a shed near a station in Blackpool. I've never liked fairground rides so when I went to Alton Towers as a kid the model railway was great for me. And I just have a vague memory of the one in Blackpool, it was not near the station we arrived at, and I recall it being upstairs. Other than that, I have no detail.
It was shared with this place:I recall two - one was at Alton Towers, the other was in a shed near a station in Blackpool. I've never liked fairground rides so when I went to Alton Towers as a kid the model railway was great for me. And I just have a vague memory of the one in Blackpool, it was not near the station we arrived at, and I recall it being upstairs. Other than that, I have no detail.
http://www.drwhoexhibitions.co.uk/llangollen.htm
It was one admission price and you got into both bits (trains and Dr Who). It closed in 2003 it says (I didn't think it was that long ago !)
Overall;
It was interesting, but way too long at ten episodes.
Wanted more car content & got bored with the rivet counting.
Simon & his team seem to have a great passion for the company.
The enthusiastic model makers were a mixed bunch, but hats off to them... Some very clever people there.
Wow... that was some serious testing on the Scalextric track.
Should be front engined. RWD surely.
The chap with the ‘Minions’ railway... was there steam coming out of his ears.... “ Not too fast”
Build a fantasy scene with them.. they would love that.
Overall: 7/10... less would have been more in this case.
( Still better than the Brooklands Series though)
It was interesting, but way too long at ten episodes.
Wanted more car content & got bored with the rivet counting.
Simon & his team seem to have a great passion for the company.
The enthusiastic model makers were a mixed bunch, but hats off to them... Some very clever people there.
Wow... that was some serious testing on the Scalextric track.
Should be front engined. RWD surely.
The chap with the ‘Minions’ railway... was there steam coming out of his ears.... “ Not too fast”
Build a fantasy scene with them.. they would love that.
Overall: 7/10... less would have been more in this case.
( Still better than the Brooklands Series though)
Edited by Milkyway on Wednesday 15th December 23:44
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