letterspider

I already made one...but you know the RTC livery is not the simplest of resprays...

Dear Bachmann I like your Mark 1 coaches but can you retool the roof and paint in RTC livery for a very nice approximation of Lab 6 Prometheus. I want to recreate this photo here https://www.traintesting.com/images/on_test_middle.jpg And I would run it with your HDST too How much would it cost to crowdfund a Mark 1 roof? (I am not bothered about the generator grilles at the back or the cables at the end but if you could tool up one side as well.....that would be great)

I could really see that happen to the prototype 👍

Okay, here is the latest livery sample with the underframe weathered d

Fingers crossed there will be strong sales and that will encourage Locomotion to produce a twin pack...

The headlamps are sticking out too far

Q2 2025 - rathr brave of Dapol to announce this so early - unless they are offering early bird prices, there will be risks of price rises, delays and ....duplication? Hopefully not. A great announcement and I am saving up for this

Why would that delay the non-sound locos from being dispatched?

If sound recordings hadnt been made at end of October...well, chips have to be programmed, inserted, tested, locos packed shipped, sampled for quality control....then sent to retailers. My guess the sound chipped locos they will ship later...perhaps after Xmas....so you have more time to save up.

I think you may be forced to work with online servers if you want to print the high res file, as opposed to something very crude

Sorry to be a bore but Precision is how finely you measure something. Eg to nearest cm or nearest mm Repeatability is to do with Accuracy. You can have systematic errors of a reading which are repeatable but always out by the exact same amount for example not zeroing your digital vernier calipers gives you repeatable inaccurate readings and then inaccuracy due to random errors which by their nature are due to unknowns, for example your vernier calipers may be reading wrong each time due to thermal expansion of the object What I don't understand is how the precision engineering as a term is applied here. It seems an exaggeration because although you might think the segments have to be cast and measured to quite fine tolerances of a few mm, then they will also have to allow for a large range of several cm of thermal expansion. In which case the mm precision is going to be pretty irrelevant.

Home printing will be a thing. You will download the stl file but it will be watermarked with a unique key like an NFT is. Each time you print the file you will need to be online as the key will be updated on a public ledger (like the Bitcoin blockchain) until you reach your limit of permissible prints. I suppose you could even sell or gift your unused remaining prints. Designers could also offer limited runs of a design, or early bird prices in order to attract customers the same way manufacturer's do. What I don't see is what will happen if your print fails. It would still be charged....

Just a warning to anyone buying Heljan parts from Gaugemaster (I am usually a satisfied customer with their service) They have silently changed their pricing system. If you order the part number from a sprue, you will no longer get exactly what is on the spares sheet if it is a multiple item...for example you will only get one out of a pair of windscreens or one out of 4 engine room windows Ian Linley tells me this is not 'an elaborate money making scheme' (I agree there is unlikely to be much profit in selling odd parts) however my last order total went up over 300%, so there it is. Ian also said another reasons for the change was that customers were 'fed up of getting spare parts they had no need for' (surprising, as I never seem to have too many spare parts) I have suggested that Gaugemaster needs to make it clear that the part number on their website is now disconnected from the part numbers on the spares sheet, which they tell you to refer to! I have no idea if what they are doing contravenes distance selling laws, someone else may advise. Perhaps Heljan is starving suppliers of spares / Brexit costs / Gaugemaster has to ration their remaining stock? In the meantime I am sharing this information with fellow members who might otherwise find themselves in a disappointing situation when they don't receive the number of parts that they thought they were ordering.

Any updates on your 73/9?

I did see 1959 stock on the Heathrow branch, usually destined for Northfields depot. I don't see any reason why they couldn't go all the way to Heathrow but this was not in any way a regular service....however.... the fact that Heathrow is a 'destination' makes me wonder if EFE / Bachmann will produce the 1973 stock down the line or whether they may go for the 2025 stock - (which will also be cascading onto other lines as well) https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2023/08/01/tfl-unveils-details-of-new-piccadilly-line-trains/ I guess it depends on how expensive these will be?

Well, I am just going to run my 1938 Tube Stock to Heathrow instead! (not my image)

So we are getting the EFE 1959 Tube Stock in aluminum grey with Heathrow destination boards as a London Transport Museum exclusive....but.... IIRC by the time the line was extended to Heathrow in 1977, the 1959 stock had been withdrawn from service. So perhaps Hounslow West would be a more realistic choice (what is wrong with Rayners Lane anyway?!!) Bachmann...can we please get some directional lighting into these units please please please (wire handrails would also be nice)

Can my SOUND fitted Class 89 be delivered by Q4 2023 if the protoype hasn't been recorded yet...?

Having lived near to Wasps original grounds in Sudbury, you can see the complete mismanagement firsthand. They sold their grounds off to developers upon the condition they could have an adjacent training pitch. This meant the Borough allocated them 1/3 of the adjoining park to be fenced off. I have never in decades seen that pitch in use, it remains overgrown to this day - effectively stolen from the local taxpayers.

Thanks everyone. I did try the app reset. Even uninstalled the app. Didn't work Did receive a reset code today. Hopefully it will work

Sorry if this is in the thread elsewhere but cannot link my decoder It shows up as resettable decoder but I can't reset it without a pass code and I don't have that unless it links and its won't link. Here is the screen shot

You beat me to it!

Nice to see they are trying to address the issues of previous batches

Such a list would also be useful for identifying the running numbers which suffered from livery issues