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The kit may stil be listed on the Backwoods miniatures site but Pete gave up the range and sold it on to Neville Kent (NDrive) See. Home | N-Drive Productions for narrow gauge kits and N gauge industrial locomotive kits

I know for a fact that P McParlin sold only 1 is false. Bob Hughes had 1, & I have most of 1 (Bought 2nd hand off Ebay part built {or trod on})

I would not say Cherry Picking as such, So far The only known acquisitions are. 3mm scale items by 3mm Scale Society (Although not yet completed as waiting for Allen to provide a list of Photo tool references). 5.5mm scale items by Neville Kent (NDrive) but again still awaiting some Photo tool references from Allen (10 months after being paid). French Railcars in various/all scales (7 kits only) Photo tool references provided by Allen, But they do not match the list sent to Grainge & Hodder transferring ownership. Other than that 5 (Separate) Attempts to secure the 3 foot Narrow Gauge range in 4mm Scale, By the 3 above and myself, (Twice now as my first attempt was jointly with 1 of above) and 2 (Separate) Attempts to secure the 3 foot Narrow Gauge range in 15mm Scale, By 1 of the above and myself. I am trying to keep track here, And by and large all other parties I have spoken to {With the exception of Stan, who is not answering or really saying anything either} are agreeing to avoid treading on other parties toe's and work with each other. The 3mm society took control (Or are trying to !) of the entirety of the 3mm range. Obvious really as it is their scale. Neville Kent has taken the 5.5mm range and attempted to secure the 3 foot Narrow Gauge range as they complement his current range of chassis. The French Railcars as it was a small range and the person is interested in them as such and will be easy to handle without much cost outlay.

Stupid place or not, Well done so far.

No the other 3 have specifically stated they re no longer pursuing the purchase. 1 hour long phone call later to latest contact gives the extra information. 1 Allen's List / Identification System of Phototools is not the same as G & H (But they do have a crib sheet to convert across) 2 The new contact having bought the rights to the said 7 kits has received a list of Phototools from Allen, But that does not tally with the list Allen has sent to G & H to transfer the rights. 3 New contact is also particularly wary of North West Group in that they are not forthcoming in their interest, involvement or position. (Go back to my 1st post in this thread 5th May.) In that they say they have the range (But do not say the rights) and are acting like they are agents for Allen (Or at least trying to give that impression to new contact)

The digging continues, although I do not know if the hole is getting deeper or just wider? I have (AT LAST) actually spoken to Allen. He now knows my intent and I am back to waiting for a response. I have also found out that there was another attempt to secure the Irish, Isle of Man and Southwold ranges in 00n3 and 15mm (But have been requested not to identify them) They have taken other bits but it took 4 months for 7 kits and they are still not certain they have all relevant details. So that's at least 4 of us that have been or still are after the 00n3 range. (With this amount of activity you should think that Allen would have the Phototool No,s sorted by now) Oh Hum.......

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Further progress, Yes, if you count going backwards. Been in touch with Grainge and Hodder. My earlier statement that they knew what was on each Phototool was incorrect. What they have is a list of digitised Phototool sheets, Each being given a code that enables them to identify it from their records, also stating the material type, thickness and size of sheet it is to be etched on. They have no knowledge of what each sheet will actually make up into. Both Neville and Peter are still waiting, And this afternoon Allen announced on the 00n3 group.io site that he had found more old 00n3 stock. ?

The Bogie well looks good and the tip about the joining method. (Do not know if our Chemists will sell the product though) The article for the figures is interesting, as that looks doable being mainly Software lead, once you are familiar with the Printer. The Class 27 Cab, Well it's a bit advanced in the design stage for a newbie.

Hey, Don't Knock it.

I would be interested please, Just got a 2nd hand Tevo Tornado (Apparently a Creality CR10 clone) to start with. Also have a Resin printer gifted a few months back but that is still sat in it's as yet untouched and factory sealed box. Start a course on 3D printing at end of month.

Bit like this used to be. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/157894865580 This kit was reworked from a Steam Roller version.

He ruled me out as I'm barely 20 mile from him.

And from Neville Kent (NDrive) 10 months on from paying for the 5.5mm range, He is still waiting for film numbers and what's on each, So far he only has about a 1/3 of the info and 1 he has an order for is among the not yet provided. He was after the 00n3 range but Allen said only with the other Narrow Gauge range, But Allen would not give him a price (Then did the deal with Stan for the actual stock) Neville is not now necessarily wanting to buy after the market has been flooded with cheap kits. (Stans fire sale as I stated earlier) and maybe wait ages to get the information on the film numbers. (If ever) He has said if I'm interested to have a try to go for it (But armed and forewarned with the above information) You can see I am not going at this blindly. Next stop on my quest seems to be to try to "back door" the Film Number information from Grainge & Hodder if they will be amenable. But am still stuck with then trying to "Work" a deal with Allen.

Right Just spoke to Peter Leach, he has confirmed that the 3mm Society took all 3mm stock and had agreed a price on the Phototools, As it stands they have so far paid for the stock (Which he has in his warehouse) but not the Phototools as they are still waiting on Allen to provide a full list of what exists and is held at Grainge and Hodder, Apparently G & H know what is on the list but they will not provide it, as it is still Allen's intellectual property. So I was partly right in that the 3mm society do not yet have the rights to the 3mm range. Like me he is also an 00n3 modeller and we had raised the idea of the purchase between us before (Beginning of last year!) and we may still do this jointly, if we can get anywhere with Allen, But at present he is growing frustrated at not yet being able to finalise the deal he worked so hard on for the 3mm society. Anyway I now have some insight into the kind of prices achieved so far (And that it is well within what I had put aside in my mind!) we have arranged a further Phone call for tomorrow.