Padishar Creel Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 but then you are left with all the other stock and scenery etc that probably isn't that good....So the min-marvel that is a CJM loco will look so out of place...... Chris also takes RTR rolling stock from the "Big Two" and applies his magic to them - which can involve detailing as well as weathering if you so wish. Which would then just leave the scenery... Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oreamnos Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Thanks to the OP for starting this thread as I was not aware of these new models. I just had a look at the pictures on the CJM website and these look brilliant. I've never been a big Class 50 enthusiast, mostly because the Grafar version is not that great, and I only have a couple of them in rail blue just to have around. These CJM ones look like they are worth the £495, but for me, I am getting too ham fisted in my advancing years to ensure that I wouldn't drop and ruin one. I have dropped and wrecked Grafar models before and while it is very disappointing to break a model, at least I never felt as if I'd just wasted a huge sum and I could also scavenge the parts for spares to boot. If I broke one of these, I think I'd be sad for weeks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold bcnPete Posted October 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2011 Found this earlier whilst sifting through some of my old spotting photos... Even better than one CJM 50...but two of them...lovely stuff...taken at Par early eighties I recall... grabs coat and off to buy a lottery ticket... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold bcnPete Posted October 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2011 Two 50s for the price of one, I'll let you ask Chris that one... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raffles Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 I've spent a little time studying the photos and I am impressed. very impressed. That said, the more I look at the windscreens, the more I agree with Jon - it's like they gone too far with them which leads me to ask... What is it about 50s that make them soooooo hard to get right? Lets face it, no manufacturer thus far has satisfied the masses as far as the front end is concerned. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padishar Creel Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 If I broke one of these, I think I'd be sad for weeks! a few years ago I did, I was Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 What is it about 50s that make them soooooo hard to get right? Lets face it, no manufacturer thus far has satisfied the masses as far as the front end is concerned. After all. it is not as if the prototypes are extinct is it ? Unless you live in Scotland or Kent, you are not really more than a couple of hundred miles away from a real one to poke your laser scanner at !!!!!I Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 Laser scanners are not a universal panacea. They throw up a lot of data that will still need to be interpreted; just look at the Dapol Western thread after the laser scan and see how the results have been altered since then several times to put back characteristics that were 'smoothed out' when the data was turned into a 3-D CAD. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arran Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 HI All Bernard has a very valid point about laser scanners, i personaly fell all these things are an aid to the design but when it really comes down to it you still need the MK1 eyeball and the tape measure. Im sure this is how CJM and other go about things as a pic of the tape measure is less likely to lie to you. Regards Arran Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padishar Creel Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 It's been a long wait but finally they're on their way!!! Oh joy.. but I will have to negotiate funding for one of these or one of these Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul B Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 It's been a long wait but finally they're on their way!!! Oh joy.. Very nice indeed! Having had the fortune to play with a large logo one already and with one of those and an original NSE liveried one on the way in due course those images haven't helped my patience. But Chris' handywork is worth the wait! I'm biased but that NSE loco is truly stunning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold bcnPete Posted April 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2012 Just had a look at the revised CJM website....the new 50 is lookin' very tasty.... http://www.cjmmodels.co.uk/V2-Products/CJM_Class_50.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
43179 Posted April 29, 2012 Author Share Posted April 29, 2012 CJMs website makes for dangerous viewing! oooh , that NSE one is calling me Jon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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