Millholme Models coming back

[Atlantic 3279]

If he has enough customers to keep him as busy as he wishes to be, then he doesn't need everybody else to be aware.

Exclusivity of a sort?

[mick b]

Beyond belief

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MILLHOLME-MO ... 1438.l2649

You can get the kit for £100.

[Horsetan]

Beyond belief

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MILLHOLME-MO ... 1438.l2649

You can get the kit for £100.

....if you know where to order it from. I suspect a couple of the bidders don't.

[mick b]

Its not hard to search for items .

No idea if they are stupid, rich, just daft or suffering auction fever or Covid 19 . The prices since the lock down are really stupid, and there is some right old crap on there as well, going for daft money !!.

Keep safe !!

[manna]

G'Day Gents

That J28 for sale on E-Bay, is now at 431 pounds, with almost 3 days to go.

manna

[Pebbles]

As with so many old kits, that wouldn't pass muster by to days standards, sentiment plays a large role.

[Danby Wiske]

£431 is a lot of sentiment.

[Woodcock29]

That is totally ridiculous. I thought I had paid a lot some years ago when I paid 140 for a DJH D6!

[Horsetan]

That is totally ridiculous. I thought I had paid a lot some years ago when I paid 140 for a DJH D6!

I dunno - I once saw a Backwoods Miniatures kit for a 4mm scale Garratt reach the heady heights of £730 before the leading bidder got cold feet and cancelled his bid. It dropped back down to about £150 before racing back to about £500.

[Atlantic 3279]

It may all defy our logic, yet, as has been stated elsewhere by a well known modeller, "ancient pieces of bent tin" frequently command far higher prices at auction than more recent, exquisitely detailed, accurate, high-quality models.

Maybe we should just be glad that we don't want to buy coarse "scale" relics?

[Horsetan]

....Maybe we should just be glad that we don't want to buy coarse "scale" relics?

I'm quite happy with a Class 2 relic:

[JASd17]

Perhaps some calm.

This is what you might get if you build the kit. I did not do this one, as Mr G**t knows (our friend Autocar Publicity). Hope you are OK Simon?

Some pounds were exchanged, but nearer £50 than 100. It has not been run, however.

Clearly there is a different boiler and/or mountings on prototype photo. H&BR experts required, but my original comment, on this thread, stands I think.

John

[Hatfield Shed]

...I once saw a Backwoods Miniatures kit for a 4mm scale Garratt reach the heady heights of £730 before the leading bidder got cold feet and cancelled his bid...

The only acceptable excuse for a withdrawn bid at auction, is the bidder's death in the sale room. And that's regarded as inconsiderate conduct.

...This is what you might get if you build the kit... H&BR experts required...

Featly done given the criticisms of the kit. Looks different, would baffle me as to origin. I am quite definitely not an H&BR expert.

But what a well designed machine that is for a fully concealed worm drive on the centre axle. Quite surprising that Obscure Prototypes'R'us never picked that up to go with their pre-group origin van.

[Horsetan]

£431 is a lot of sentiment.

It went for £451 in the end

[manna]

£431 is a lot of sentiment.

It went for £451 in the end

G'Day Gents

Enjoy .........

manna