{"id":318771,"date":"2025-11-18T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=d270ab4c886b7329b03d845d80124a0a"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:28:11","slug":"saturday-ramble-selling-things-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=318771","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Ramble: Selling things on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444;\">There was a layout exhibited over the weekend; let&#8217;s call it Duckling Ghyle. Well known, but for some reason I&#8217;d never seen it in the flesh, despite it having been around for decades. Disappointed? Most definitely.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">The modelling was superb; impossible to fault. The display and operation were frankly appalling; off the scale. Achingly slow and partial front operation meant that 3-link couplers were fiddled with in the view-line of the audience. I&#8217;m really not a fan of this. Either work at the front\/end and go auto, or work from the back and lean over. I can accept the hand of God no problem, but I don&#8217;t want someone&#8217;s arse in my face with every single shunt move.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">The problem as I see it, isn&#8217;t this directly, it&#8217;s the selling on; and this from a modeller who sells everything on. The original builder has a concept in mind and if he\/she is thinking about this properly, it will include an early idea of how the thing will be operated and from what position, even if it is a home layout. Selling on removes this mentally carried part of the concept. I have no doubt that the current owners were competent in many ways, but the slight alteration in display removed this initial operating\/layout whole concept approach.&nbsp; Result: total failure, despite the very high modelling quality.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I suppose that what I am taking away from this is that if you buy something, you have to be careful that you think carefully about the operating concept as a whole, and don&#8217;t just purchase the visual modelling. Any reflected glory that you are hoping to obtain will soon be wiped out in seconds if the original operating style is not adopted.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">What do you think?<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #444444; font-size: 13px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #444444; font-size: 13px;\">Support the blog.<\/span><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #444444; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/chrisford2Q\" style=\"color: #3778cd; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;\">https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/chrisford2Q<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a layout exhibited over the weekend; let&#8217;s call it Duckling Ghyle. Well known, but for some reason I&#8217;d never seen it in the flesh, despite it having been around for decades. Disappointed? Most definitely.&nbsp;The modelling was superb; imposs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2154,2278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-ramble"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318772,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318771\/revisions\/318772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}