Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

Two sheets of 12mm ply, 8 lengths of 69mm x 34mm wood and some furniture legs from B&Q. Several hours in the garage, and I've got the start of my layout!

Latest addition to the collection.

Latest arrivals to the fleet, 1/4 new Bachmann 37s have arrived at Sandford Junction

Just bought the Oxford LNER bundle with the Hornby Raven Q6. Excellent value for money, I would highly recommend checking them out if you haven't already. Choice of the Q6, J15 or D16, that come with a random selection of appropriate rolling stock and road vehicles to the period and area.

In my bundle I got the loco, two Oxford open wagons, two cars (unfortunately both the same, but still nice models), three lorries and two express parcels trailers. An excellent job lot in my opinion, I've got enough for my own LNER goods depot now!

Loco is superb as usual from Hornby, despite it being a slightly older model (2014 the designs say).

Best part for me is the value for money. All of that for £150, with an RRP of over £225 apparently. Considering the current RRP for the loco alone is £177 these days, that's pretty good going.

EDIT: just did the maths and the total price of everything except the loco is £81.10, leaving £143.90 of the quoted £225 for the loco. Not sure what the old RRP for the Q6 was, but with Hornby's current RRP at £176.99, that actually makes the total price £258.09. And all that available for only £150 :-D

I ordered a Bachmann class 121 bubble car. It's due for delivery Monday. It's to be fitted with my Marks Train soundscape decoder, which was in my Dapol 121. However that is not a good runner and the soundscape is wasted in it. Bought a Gaugemaster decoder and stay alive. They are fitted in Dapol 121 which now runs ok. Needs tuning for inertia.

Yesterday, I purchased a second hand model of Gresley A3 #2751 Humorist online; it should arrive at some point around Christmas.

My latest additions is 4 Wrenn Presflo wagons 3 in Blue Circle Cement Yellow and 1 in Blue Circle Cement Grey.

Brought off ebay with no other bidders however I did I put my bids on late , I put a bid on a 5th wagon well in advance, at the time no other bidders but during the night 4 other bids of 50p increments were put on so I was out bid this morning, having lost some other bids by 50p or a £1 I am starting to feel I am being stalked. Are there any others who use ebay having the same experience?

Extremely unlikely for two very good reasons:

1. Automatic bidding means that if someone else places a MUCH higher bid, it will actually only top the next highest bid by 50p/£1.
2. If others are ‘watching’ an item they will usually get an email from eBay warning them to ‘avoid missing out’ if someone places a bid.

However I certainly agree that when you have a run of missing out, paranoia is to be expected! grinning

My experience of eBay bidding is that a lot of people only show their hand at the very last moment. Lost count of how many times an item had no activity for days, then the last five minutes you can get 30 bidders. Even though I understand this is how things are done, I just lost interest in it, unless it’s something I really really want and can’t get anywhere else.

Although I’m really enjoying building a collection of larger trains, I gotta say there is something about these little Peckett’s that I really love.