Tugs

These are looking good, the ARC wagons will certainly be noticeable going around a layout!!!

It boggles my mind that Bachmann can't seem to do a bogie wagon for less than £70 these days, especially when the likes of Accura, Cavalex, Revolution, et al can produce "better" (I use this loosely to describe more factory-added parts, and thus labour costs) wagons at £50 or less... £70 for an HRA wagon, when Accura will sell you a pair for £5 more. £75 for a TEA when Cavalex and Revolution will sell you one for less than £50. Make it make sense.

Revolution fill yet another gap in my "wanted" list! Excellent choice chaps, will certainly be having a few of these when they're ready!

Given what the other guys are charging for 20+ year old tooling, this is an absolute bargain... (makes it all the more sad that the Class 91 and Mk4s were assassinated too :( ) My first of probably many orders is in with Trains4U, now the waiting begins...

Well, this is very exciting, for potentially obvious reasons! Shame about the damage to my wallet tho... :D

I can't help but feel that these wagons have had their thunder well and truly stolen :( Mine turned up last week, and bar a shipping issue that Trains4U sorted pretty much instantly (fantastic customer service there, will be buying a lot more from them in the future!), these are absolutely bloody marvellous models. The detail is utterly fantastic, the decision to remanufacture can't have been an easy one to make, but it was absolutely the right choice. The fit and finish on this batch is wonderful. Printing of the markings is blimmin excellent too. Mophead's comparative review on the previous page should certain get more exposure, tho it would be nice to see the HAA's compared too, just to see if there are any subtle differences with the wealth of markings. And a very subjective one, but I also prefer Cavalex's more "austere" boxes. Apple have a LOT to answer for, making the box part of the product, as boxes have grown in size and now need their own protection (I've never liked that some other boxes come with a plastic sleeve to protect the box too...) leading to more waste. Cavalex's boxes do the job perfectly, and take up wayyy less shelf space in the process. I posted in this thread before, that I'd stick with my Cavalex order, and I'm glad that I did. Long may Cavalex produce top quality wagons, at a decent price, and with the same kind of integrity we've seen with the (re)production of the HAAs!

That's the ticket! (Saves me having to trawl the archives at work on Monday too!) You're making absolutely the right choice to support rail modellers and wargaming, so definitely support you on that decision making process. A trade off between "needing a bit of modelling", simple construction, simple production, and accuracy is always a hard one to make. Luckily for my job I only have to worry about production of the 3d model, and its accuracy... The models are excellent tho, your CAD guy (guys/girls? :D ) really has an eye for it!

If I could like these posts more than once, I would! Excellent stuff! Pedant-hat on again (sorry, I can't help it, very similar to the day job!), the little ECM antennas on the "table" on the rear of the Jackal would be removed too, and they lower the suspension so the tops of the wheels are almost touching the wheel arches (trying to find a photo, but may have to wait until I'm back at work on Monday...).

Like most things Army, upgrades happened over time, so it wouldn't be improbable to see a mix of configurations. The lights were changed out during the 90's through to the mid 00's, and would have been complete by the time the last vehicles went through the Life Extension Program (Diesel engine, Bowman radios, etc). Later (2003 onwards) Spartans would also have started to sport the additional appliqué armour too, recognisable as a series of flat plates bolted on to the outside of the vehicle, but not all were fitted with this.

Hopefully more helpful than pedantic (sorry, its part of my day job, so I can never un-see these things!) but the WMIK is still in a bit of a franken-configuration. The "cover" over the driver (actually an ECM equipment mounting platform) was part of the RWMIK+ upgrade around 2010-11, and would also need removing to back-date the vehicle to earlier standards. The spoked wheels were part of the earlier EWMIK upgrade in 2007, prior to this they had the "regular" dished wheels common with the rest of the land rover fleet. Finally, the wing mirrors would be folded in for rail transport (less sticky-out stuff to get broken off!) My pedantic comments aside, the models look fab, the print quality is fantastic, and these will look great once painted, weathered, and loaded on the wagons!

Without wanting to be too pedant-y about it, the model as shown represents an RWMIK+ which were in service 2010 - present, although their numbers are being reduced now that they are not in use in Afghanistan.

Without wanting to wander much further off topic, CN is where it's at! Also have a fondness for the NSW 82 and 90 class, watching them drag looooong coal trains through the Hunter Valley and clank about in the yards in Newcastle are happy memories. There's something about those raked forward cab windows... Anyway, back on topic, I am very excited for the 89s, my Swallow livery variants are booked and paid for, now we wait...

Super glad to see this come through to actual go-ahead. My versions duly ordered. Now we wait impatiently by the door for delivery!

While it is "disappointing" that we will have to wait longer for our wagons (truly, a first world problem), I have to echo other people in this thread to say: a massive boost in respect to Cavalex for this move. It would be so easy for them to just push ahead with the models as they are, but they want to provide models of the best quality, and that excites me. I said it before in this thread, but having two successful, high-quality, and still reasonably priced manufacturers producing the kinds of "modern" wagons I'm interested in can only be a good thing. This move makes me more excited to see what Cavalex will come out with in the future, because you know it will be of the best possible quality.

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