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... Rob says in his last post, is an excellent argument for concentrating on Mail Order rather than shows, which are expensive to attend (stand fees, travel/accommodation, time spent etc)rather than concentrating on Mail Order, which services the whole prospective market rather than just a very small section at very little (if no) actual cost. If that's what he wants to do, so be it but... posted: 30 Apr 2018 09:14 from: Hayfield Trouble is if the shows are not profitable traders would not go plus it is also a way of showing what is available. Phil has inherited issues some which were long standing, he is also new to running a business, had plenty of ideas on how he wanted to operate it, Reality has kicked in and as Martin has written, there are not enough hours in the day and is learning all the skills required both in retailing and arranging production schedules, things are getting better, but Phil is the first to say he is trying hard to improve the ...
... share the concerns of others about future supply, I am quite surprised to see no comments on any forums (that I've seen) wishing Pete well for the future (esp. with his back) and noting how much he has done to advance the hobby. As for cottage industry- yes there are some that have really mucked things up, most don't and I can think of excellent kit producers, etch detailing kits and so on from cottage suppliers that are all honest, hard working and so on. Although CL appears profitable, I would hazard a guess that it's not massively so and that to ensure its continued survival it may need to downsize and if that means we have to accept slower ordering due to less staff then that's better than closure, surely. posted: 10 Mar 2017 07:40 from: Godfrey Earnshaw DerekStuart wrote:..., I am quite surprised to see no comments on any forums (that I've seen) wishing Pete well for the future (esp. with his back) and noting how much he has ...
... . I'm not going to match that, am I? Mike (the RP picture editor) now has over 50,000 pictures in his database including about 200 of mine. He accepts about 50% of the ones I submit. Some of mine do come up quite often on the slide show -- I noticed this one was on tonight: knighton_1280_rp.jpg It's pleasing to see your pictures being shown to the world. To submit your own, go to: http://www.radioparadise.com/image_upload.php RP is a non-profit radio channel, with no irritating advertising between the music. They rely entirely on listener donations. Here's the music/slideshow link: http://www.radioparadise.com/rp_2s.php cheers, Martin. posted: 14 Sep 2018 12:53 from: Matt M. Thanks Martin, I'll have a look and listen. There are less salubrious parts of Slovenia that can be photographed. I don't think Lake Bled is a fair example of the average. Matt M. posted: 14 Sep 2018 19:37 from: Andrew Barrowman ...
... a few weeks, pity for a short while either by show attendance or society membership, though the societies no doubt will be pleased by a possible increase in membership, which in my opinion is no bad thing With regard to the pricing, Mr Jukes has seemingly dangled a carrot to prospective buyers will enable prices to be 'lean', driven essentially by the aim of recovering all costs with a small margin Are we modellers in for a price decrease? In the past the costs were always based on a commercial basis, ie profitable !! and we have seen several price increases in the recent past, is this a new marketing ploy to gain a price advantage? with lean prices as stated by Mr Jukes, Interesting times ahead posted: 3 Sep 2018 15:42 from: Stephen Freeman Looks like I'll have to re-join Scaleseven posted: 3 Sep 2018 15:56 from: Rob Manchester Stephen Freeman wrote: Looks like I'll have to re-join Scaleseven It shouldn't be a requirement to be a member of a club or society to ...
5. RSU Wanted
... really wants the hassle of selling a very lumpy bit of kit? Is there still a reasonably healthy demand? Paul. I believe that most of the suppliers of RSUs in the UK are/were small businesses or cottage industries. I don't know all the ins and outs of it, but under present EU law for scrap reclamation, makers of domestic electrical equipment now have to be certificated in some way. That costs a lot of money and renders the supplying of items like RSUs completely unprofitable for the levels of turnover and profit involved. I could probably dig up quotes from other lists since I remember the matter being discussed in detail a few months ago, with all the relevant EU detail. And because we are the UK, we will apply the rules to the nth degree. Jim. posted: 14 Aug 2007 20:46 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: So- is this down to a very low demand for an expensive and bulky item to stock, or just that no-one really wants the hassle of selling a ...
... These could be (if possible) held in a "Stickies" section(s ), maybe divided under sub-headings (e.g. Turnouts, Printing etc) and include the Templot S/W version and maybe also a link to the original post. If Martin feels this would be useful and would lighten his workload then I'll put my name down for a batch of posts.... On a general note (and purely for interest/clarification) whilst I imagine Hobby Holidays runs courses partly to make a profit (I'm guessing here!) I have it on very good authority that the Missenden Abbey courses are run on a not-for-profit basis by the organiser (i.e. the Modeller, who is liable for any shortfall personally). Best Regards, Brian Tulley posted: 9 Nov 2008 19:31 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, Thanks for all the kind words and suggestions. I'm still pondering matters. But I would like to respond to this: Alan Turner wrote: Perhaps you are denying others the ...
... a lot of track. The Association is also an excellent source of technical data for small scale modelling and they also advocate the conversion of a lot of RTR UK N Scale models so are a good source of data on these models. There's also a sort of hint that they might supply an 9mm gauge version of their new "Easitrack" product which would be a great advance on realistic track for UK N scale. Unfortunately, dealing with electronic ordering and money transfer can be an expensive business for a relatively small non-profit making organisation, hence a reason for a lot of the UK specialist societies not having the facilities. But I know that we have just set up to receive money from overseas members by Paypal in the UK S Scale Society and will take orders by email, so it might be worth checking if the 2mm Association can do the same. I have found Nigel Cliffe to be a very good contact in the Association and you can get him via the email address on this web page. http://www.2mm.org.uk/contacts.htm ...
... are protecting and keeping these items for our future reference do need some income from said items to fund their endeavours. (I do not include Google and other digital monsters in this). Likewise groups like the LNWR Society deserve some recompense for the effort of making these items more easily available to those who cannot access this sort of information any other way. It becomes more of a moral question than a legal one. It is a complicated issue that needs addressing in a way that doesn't only empower multinationals to choke supply for profit. I have been involved in a project find and catalogue surviving drawings of the New South Wales Government Railway. As part of that we are making lower grade copies of original NSWGR drawings available to researchers, modellers and historians through the Australian Railway History Society (NSW division). In monetary terms I won't see my time or expenses back for the last three years. But a growing number of us involved want to move the research on and stop people having to crawl through disparate collections, (if they know of these ...
... manuscripts is thirsty work, apparently. As chief planner I may just have to join them regards Keith posted: 8 Apr 2015 06:45 from: Matt M. Hi Keith, If you post an item on the internet that is out of copyright you can't stop someone copying it. The images are poor deliberately to encourage purchase and protect their collection's commercial worth. And that is understandable. The digital age with internet has made it very easy to copy and disseminate material that both private and public entities have used to create profit and help fund the building and maintenance of collections. If they are from the original plates then they should be quite good in full reproduction. The fact that some seem to have quality problems associated with emulsion failure on glass plates suggests that, at least in some cases, they aren't just copying the postcards. (Lens of Sutton have a few of these early St Ives postcards too). If things are the same legally the same there as here in New South Wales, (and most of our government processes are ...
... I've missed your point entirely Paul posted: 1 Nov 2017 02:38 from: Trevor Walling Hello, My point was Microsoft should put as much effort into enabling users to avoid pitfalls like the anti virus issue as they do into rendering perfectly good software and hardware obsolete and incompatible. If they did that people would not have to jump through as many hoops. If the open source community can do it or Martin what excuse does Microsoft have? I don't like the way Microsoft deliberately exploits peoples lack of knowledge to make a profit by selling the same thing over and over. "You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all of the time" is not something you could say in Microsoft's case. I prefer to use Linux but will resort to Microsoft operating systems if it is the only option. Usually obsolete hardware or software that requires such action. Vehicle diagnostics comes to mind or some programs from MERG. There are probably others. Regards. Trevor. posted: 1 Nov 2017 03:25 from ...
... maps if you don't want to. Donations are entirely voluntary by definition. Sorry, I don't have any stats for tiled map usage. I find them very useful myself, and several others have said the same. It's the one feature in Templot I'm most pleased with, and which isn't available in any other track planning software as far as I know. But how much others have actually used them I don't know, Templot doesn't transmit any user data back home. It's worth bearing in mind that NLS is a non-profit, and the API subscriptions are helping to fund their mapping projects. I suspect that if and when a 25" API becomes available, usage would shoot up. On the other hand, some might see the tiled maps as a luxury when the screenshot equivalents are available free. The tiled maps are just so much easier to use, one click gets an extra row or column of tiles and expands the map in any direction. And they zoom and pan much faster than screenshots. If the kitty is rather empty how ...
... be a huge and time consuming task. Tony. posted: 4 Oct 2018 09:47 from: Hayfield Tony I think its the way the statements from Mr Dukes have been both written and understood that has caused some confusion/concern. I think from memory he said Exactoscale will not be developing 00 gauge products, which is totally different to supporting their existing 00 gauge products. In addition he did say products will be made available where possible so that the development costs can be recouped with the aim of making a small profit I can understand not wanting to take the risk in providing new items for 00 gauge in a market where there is plenty of competition. Hopefully once the new arrangements for distribution are up and running there will be more clarity on the trackwork range, It was good to see them available again at Scaleforum Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> C&L new 00 gauge flexitrack about Templot Club Templot Companion- ...
... should probably delete that image to be on the safe side. OS OpenData maps can be freely used for any purpose, but they tend not to be much help in track planning, see: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/opendata.html OS maps over 50 years old since publication are out of copyright, but if someone such as the NLS scans them, they create their own copyright in the scan itself and what use can be made of it. Fortunately the NLS as a non-profit org allow non-commercial use of their scans. In the case of the tiled NLS maps in Templot, I have paid for licence to use them in the Templot application (out of the donations fund). Three cheers for OpenStreetMap which can be used by anyone for any purpose (and to which as a contributor I confess a serious addiction problem ): http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.37567/-2.30633 Anyone can contribute to OSM, which is mostly done by tracing over Bing satellite ...
14. Background Maps
... really be addressed to the NLS rather than Templot. It is their web site which is failing to work in the embedded browser -- for example the "script error" messages, and the fact that mouse-dragging doesn't work (in Windows10), it is necessary to use the arrow keys to move around. Those problems don't arise with other map sites such as OS Maps and OpenStreetMap, which work fine in the embedded browser without errors. However, criticising NLS is a bit unfair when they are a non-profit providing an amazing mapping resource free of charge. The real culprit is Microsoft, who still implement the Windows API WebBrowser component using an old version of Internet Explorer -- I believe the rendering engine is IE7. Even in Windows10 they haven't upgraded it to the Edge rendering engine. This is typical of Windows, where fancy new stuff that no-one wants gets added to the desktop, but the underlying works are years old. Look for example at the standard Windows Help system (CHM files) -- unchanged since ...
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