As we leave the last century further and further behind I've been making sure some of it's poorer examples of the modelmakers art go with it. Over the last few years I've jettisoned many of those questionable lumps that we all pick up from time to time - when the price is right and we're young enough to believe we actually will get round to rebuilding and remotoring everything. Much of what has been sold has, unsuprisingly, been from Lima, a consistent purveyor of questionable lumps to the gentry for 25 years or more.
I can't pretend I was sad to see them go, I wasn't. As far as I'm concerned their demise opens up the field for far better products for less money, as Bachmann have already proven, as well as (hopefully) even better products at higher prices. But their existence has pretty much matched my time spent in the hobby, they've always been there for me, even if I have normally chosen to reject them in favour of better quality US or European products - even kettles! So, at a time when some folk are already starting to rewrite history faster than an adoloescent music journalist can say 'lig', I've knocked together a Lima overview, a not particularly affectionate autopsy of the product range that probably indirectly did more for the bank balances of MG Sharp, Victors and Mackay Models than they ever did directly for the many staunch retailers of British outline. Gone, but not forgiven.
Handy things, these soap boxes. Hey! I can see your house from here...