Re: FA eBay One of only 125 Hornby NRM Evening Stars R330 Mint Boxed


"ab" <ab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "John Turner" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >"ab" wrote
> >
> >> Ahh... don't be such a sour***! They never claimed it was
"authentic"
> >
> >Oh, so the legend on the box 'Authentic OO-scale model' is totally
> >meaningless then?
>
> (backpedals furiously)... well I, ummm, didn't realise that....
>
> Still they could be claiming it's "Authentically OO-scale" I
> suppose... although given the back-to-back measurements of the
wheels
> on Hornby stuff in the 1970s, even that might be open to
quibbling...
> :-)
>

There is no back-pedalling to do IMO!

It's still a scale model, just that the livery isn't, as some 12inch
to the foot versions aren't 'authentic' when dressed up in "Thomas
the Tank Engine" story liveries on preserved railways. Anyway, how
many real steam loco's have bloody great electric (traction) motors
in them, hardly 'Authentic' !..


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