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Or....depending upon how they sound...Mosquitos

There's something about the front of that Class 93...I can't put my finger on it...

Interesting article here https://www.railexpress.co.uk/13227/the-beginning-of-a-new-dawn-for-rail-operations-group/ with the following photo from that article

Can I have a pn Can I have a pink ONE please

Downloaded the HM7000 app noticed the layout feature I have a layout design in my eLink - can it be imported into this app?

Is Accurascale doing ANY Freightliner liveries?

Okay so thanks

If any fellow members have a Mark 5 sleeper pack they are happy to let go of please.

Perhaps a silly question, there is no mention if the sliding door opens?

If anyone wants an EFE 1938 tube stock with directional lighting, there is one on eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145062916232?hash=item21c66c7088:g:EYAAAOSwIr5kQ62j&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4MkvpXT%2F7dRcYcWzksycTPMMrJ5GsJuDW9RkQn0NJXf82HyAhx12KKv3EXvr4I9yTZjgQVnNPoy8him8J%2FKgKq59w3sCjukKDkSYG2D3rb4aLEOdZ51xnSu3BI%2Frgud43pseXTx%2FxxSvym84l%2BqnBuPfCW9aaj5%2FbBXg11W%2FACIOHq4kVtbFat54idT6SjFKLHoij7sbbWtEgD5bnw%2FKR0Bq6%2BB1sXezgzJ246u%2FcEO%2FHgGkyRVc0Fy7OntbIYpSyMfNJ01sBTjZgB39U%2FUwUr%2Bpsi%2F1Nu%2FDkSEWjf4LQ%2BZ7|tkp%3ABk9SR9KCm9D_YQ not bad for 7 coaches

Probably because it would have conflicted with the sleeper branding and confused customers. Also because someone may have wanted to put them on eBay?

Hi Fran, are there are any plans for the Freightliner liveries

Is it too soon to ask the question....?

Quality control issues? Manufacturing slot? Typo error?

Weathering of my Accurascale Class 92. There have been some niggles with bodyside grilles repeatedly falling off. The pantograph heads detach quite easily but can be replaced the same.

Did that look lemon yellow and purple blue??

Sorry if this has been posted on here already. Has Dapol manufactured any extra blue shells to replace the livery error in the first batch? Apparently not? Another problem is I am seeing BR blue 73 on sale in many outlets but I forget which running numbers are new tooling...

Thanks -

Is the dogbone crankshaft a solid piece of plastic or is it a metal rod with plastic pinions?

At this price and with the option to change sound files freely, I'm not complaining. Good luck to Hornby making a pile of cash with this product

and Germany - didn't doesn't Siemens (Germany) provide motive power for Chinese HS rail.

My point - which I explain below, if a business can't match the levels of quality and design of the competitors, then price yourself accordingly. Because from my recent experiences the issues with Hornby are related to their design. A chassis block where you can't fit in a sound decoder and speaker is very short sighted imo. Still using 8 pin decoder standards. Plastic pantographs which fall to pieces before you even open the box is a bad consumer experience on Christmas day. Bogies with insufficient play to cope with gradients. My feeling is they haven't had enough iterations in testing. On the other hand I don't see any compromises at all in the Class 92 from Accurascale, except the pantograph head is fixed unlike the Bachmann model. The model does everything - even works on dirty track. Unfortunately you have a lemon but that is due to assembly or component issues, not issues with design. Also there seems to be unwillingness to go back and correct fixable errors. Heljan did that with the Class 86 and they are now about to announce a 3rd production run. However I don't see any suggestion future APT trailers will have smaller capacitors. These are facts, it's not about bashing Hornby. I have a lot of Hornby models I am happy with but I would no longer put in a pre-order for any future releases until I saw them reviewed on here or elsewhere.

Perhaps Hornby needs to bow out gracefully from some areas of the model train market and focus on its other businesses. If they manufacture these Bluetooth chips to very high volumes, and get them to market at the right price, I would buy 20 of them straight off. Its a great idea and would help break up the near monopoly of Zimo and ESU. Mind you, I am sure it would so be a challenge to fit into the APT

It may well be that you won't need to go to Hornby soon in any case, since a well detailed 31, 50, 56, 60 will no longer be exclusive to them. Which is ironic as those were pretty much the only models I would still consider buying from Hornby...

More time to play with the Class 92, I have made a first pass of weathering with several light washes of matt black and it definitely makes an improvement