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It says in his listing that it is 50 of them as a lot.

Here is the one with one of the David Brown Cropmaster studies titled 'Kick Start'.

I would say that wooden lollipop sticks would be a good bet, you can get them in the likes of hardware stores that sell kitchen utensils and party stuff. Just cut the rounded ends off and you could stain them down a pale green to simulate tannalised boards with watered down food colouring or if you want a more weathered look stain them with tea or coffee. Just an idea!

I only have two examples of these at present,. 'Getting ready for Smithfield', the Silver Jubillee D.B. 1412 and 'Kick Start', The D.B. Cropmaster with the farmer kicking the flat front tyre. Should like to aquire some more but price is a bit out of my range. The one they did of the D.B. 780 with the childs pedal tractor beside it called 'Like Father like Son' They used my pedal tractor for the model and were supposed to let me have one of the models at a reduction but they never did so that put me off buying any more.

I had some bumf in the post today from Gray's, the company that distributes/retails them based in Scotland advertising the new releases and items selling at reduced rates and their diary dates of events that they are attending in 2008.

Regardless of the screening of all these type of programmes to 'educate' the public and create more 'awareness', the fundamental point is that the Government of this country and the supermarkets are more or less holding peole to ransom, both the producer and consumer, by dictating the market. It is a fact that by controling food you control the populous and this is where they have the power. One third of all foods stuff that the population purchase is wasted by being thrown away. The exact opposite in countries like those of Africa has the same populous controlling effect by not supplying the reqired amount of food to feed the nation. It's one extreme to another. Coming back to the home market, it insenses me that people will go out to a restraunt and pay 30 quid through the nose for a teaspoon-full of food on a tiny plate but baulk at the price of a joint of meat at ?8 that will last them for the best part of a week and people will go to the pub and spend ?2 for a pint of beer and complain like hell that they have to pay 50p for the same volume of milk. Priorities are all wrong.

It was mainly on beef, pheasant rearing and the way the government, through legislation and form filling, is strangling the farming. A good portion was on the way the hunt operates and takes the sick and fallen stock to feed the hounds and demonstrated how the new hunting rules are affecting the way the hunt operates and kill foxes, this was Devon and Cornwall based and concentrated on the issues of animal welfare. Seems to be a lot of these type of 'awareness' programmes being screened lateley, perhaps the message of the need to educate the non-country people (and those that THINK they're country people) is finally getting through.

Did anyone watch lastnight? These programmes are always on too late in the day, they should be screened when everyone is having their meal between 6.00pm and 7.00 shut down all the other channels and make people watch!

That's what we call 'hand-draulic' Marky.

Mine is 836.

Information received tells me that the majority of new releases will be for the North American market in Ertl/Britain's boxes and will in the main be Case IH tractors.

Thanks all for the kind words. Yes, part of the family after having her for that length of time, especially from a pup but time goes so quickly and it is an inevitable thing but I still have my hand full with her 5 year old son (doctored) and her 3 year old granddaughter, trouble is the granddaughter will miss her Granny as they slept together all cuddled up and today she's been sat looking at the outside door thinking that Granny will be in at any moment, she'll soon forget her.

I have the box and the yard scraper but not the green buckrake. Will probably find one sometime.

Buried my 12 year old English Springer. :'(

Sent you by email a couple of scans Tattie, hope they come through ok.

Don't know if you read any of the tractor magazines Jamie but if you can look in the August 2007 issue of Tractor & Machinery on pages 94 and 95, there is an article there that will give you some pointers and possible ideas.

The Kramer handler is exactly the same model, differences being the livery, yellow and grey and the boom is fitted with a bucket. Both extremely good models. Both retail for around ?26.50.

You would think that for a long established company they would have a site to rival the rest but alas, Rc2 being what they are they don't seem to be that bothered. Does'nt do a lot for them doe's it!

Update of this is that a replacement came today. Will post it up in the apropriate topic. Pays to make a noise!

The question of price has been mentioned. They are around the ?20 mark.

You're right there. I was quoting the eBay side.

It's 10 to 60 days after the end of auction. Contacted him like I said and he appologised and promised me a replacement asap, so we will wait and see.

Well, thats hindsight for you, if we only knew then what we know now! I have a copy of The Farmers Weekly from 1953 and it's interesting to read the prices of cattle etc and the land and property prices, the tractor and machinery prices as well, new and secondhand. Also the adverts are interesting, how many do you see now that give you the price? A couple of years ago I had a chap at a book fair offer me a set of 12 volumes of farming books for a tenner, I did'nt even look at them 'till I got home, these volumes are each about 2 inches thick and were published in 1911 and were only available by subscription from the printers so they are quite unique, they are a sort of farming A to Z dictionary come encyclopaedia, you know the sort of thing, and in the back pages of three volumes, 4, 8 and 12, there is an anitomical paper fold-out of a horse, pig, sheep and cow, each of these are in 'layers' starting with the whole animal, the next flap you lift reveals the mustle structure, next is the organs, lift the lungs and the liver and reveal the heart and kidneys. Lift up that flap and reveal the skeleton of the animal. Fantastic set of books, you can spend hours looking at them.

That's a nice brochure Marky, freind of mine was saying yesterday that he had boxes full of brochures but he can't find them and he knows he did'nt chuck them, he'll probably come across them all by chance one day when he's looking for something else, like we all do, and say 'I've been looking for that for years'.

Delivery to newsagents from distributors of any monthly magazine is always a bit hit and miss over the Cristmas and new year period I find, where I get mine, the newsagents had one copy but the Co-Op just opposite that also stock it did'nt.