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Hi Mcc thanks for getting back to me. That sounds great I look forward to the video in the coming weeks. And hopefully seeing the model at Ally pally if accurascale are attending. Regards Gary

Hi @McC and @Accurascale Fran I'm pleased that accurascale have taken over the tooling for the 66 from hattons. Its strange that even though its the tooling for the hattons 66 it looks like a different loco all together as it looks more refined. The changes you have made are perfect to make this the ultimate 66 it was going to be from the start. I'm glad to hear that the euro 66s will be with us at some point abd I'd definitely be in the market for 66748 in grey to use with the accurascale biomass Wagons and the other euro variants we have running around. A question about 66004 if you don't mind. Will the model have the newer style LED lights like shoey has shown in the photo a few posts up. The reason i ask is that the tail and marker lights LED looks to be about the same size as the day and night headlights on either side but the artwork shows the markers to be smaller then the headlights. And will we also be able to have all 4 lights on at once now as seen on the real locos that have had the lighting upgrade? Thanks once again for giving the 66 a new home. Looking forward to seeing what other liveries you anncounce in the future. Regards Gary

I think that's all IRM products. They look like the mk2b's. That with the green boxes.

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Great news. Deposit paid for the purple deltic.

Just taken delivery of 92010. Hats off to accurascale for a very impressive model and surley a contender for model of the year next year. Roll on the class 37s and class 50s (when the gbrf ones get announced anyway) Have a great Christmas accurascale team. Gary

https://www.dckits-devideos.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1853&search=Class+92 seems to be on the website. But you'll have to get a accurathrash speaker. As its only got the smaller speaker as standard.

Ahh ok no worries was just going off what was said in the class 37 update back in October. That's good to know thank you. Regards Gary

That's a great achievement In shaving a couple of months off the schedule. Is this due to the night shifts that you requested the factory to work? I'm sure it's not an issue with all the work you guys have been doing but with night shifts quality of work can drop a bit, were extra checks put in place incase that was an issue at all? And are they also being shipped by air again? Regards Gary

Looks like the re tooled power cars are in stock at Hornby so shouldn't be long before they are with retailers. Midland pullman Rail adventure Gwr fgw fag packet On top of what's arrived already Gary

You can normally pre order from hattons without the need to pay a deposit or the whole amount. But as the price hasn't been confirmed yet it can't be pre ordered at the moment. Regards Gary

Hi Fran sounds good to me. Small as in class 377 to start of an accurascale electrifying Britain range 😀

With this being the month of Warley and picking up on some comments on Facebook. Can we expect an announcement or two at warley this year? Regards Gary

Locoman sounds has done a sound chip for the w1 Hornby magazine did a video on it so it's probably on the YouTube page.

It's a battle I don't think Revolutions would be interested in looking at topics on their page. Plus at £136 for Dcc ready could they beat that price.

I believe a sugar cube speaker comes as standard but the acurathrash speaker needs to be purchased separately and a dcc sound decoder.

Other ones?

I've seen people fit the illuminated models lighting pcbs to Bachmann 66 and just wiring up the lights so the headlights/markers come on at the same time whilst still keeping tail lights etc. It's what I'll be doing to mine in time. Few videos on YouTube about it. Best one is Torridon Road by Peter Dixon. All you gotta do after that is paint over the fake marker lights. Regards Gary

Hi Graham That's definitely my mistake then as I was talking to Michael about the lack of a switch on the GT3 and fell and if future models will have that ability. But if the 4DD and leader dont have them rhen nothing to worry about. What would the leader have if running light engine?

Yeah it is the very same one. I did have a chat with Michael about the leader and the 4dd about certain things and he said that they've taken on board what they've heard and things like windows etc are all being changed the 4dd is being re done to get the roof shape correct etc. Hoping to have a sample at Warley for the leader. I've adjed about switchable tail lights etc so hopefully they can be added. It's a very weighty model aswell as Micheal let me hold it. Roll on Warley

Rapido are doing an E1 class. It's taken time to get going but it's on the move. Gary

Thats what I've been thinking. The showed off some samples at ally pally and they wernt production samples. Just decorated samples. So fingeres crossed its just one of them and the production models are ok.

Mine arrived tiday aswell. Hornby have done a great job with the box design etc. l noticed aswell that it's had a 21 pin decoder socket upgrade. Just need to find a suitable sound file and speaker for it. 👍

Hi Fran thanks for getting back to me. I thought that might be the case with the loco so thanks for confirming that. Will any of them be on show at the great electric train show this year or running on any layouts like the mk5s and class 92 last year? Regards Gary

Hi T-T it's not that video but the one above with 37602. The title is lights camera thrash. Regards Gary