7 hours ago, fezza said:

 

I started in 1993 and can run my relatively small N layout in any period upto about 2010. Then it gets difficult as there isn't all that much modern passenger stock. It is improving but I can understand frustrations of people who want to model bang up to date practice. I'm old enough to remember when Lima 00 brought out new liveries within weeks of the real thing - in fact there was at least one occasion (60s?) where their model came out before the real thing entered traffic.

 

Voyagers, Pendolinos, mk5 coaches, HSTs, 800s are all due in the next few months, in liveries they still carry. many are re-runs anyway, save the mk5s and 800s. What’s missing where OO is so much better catered...? Mk3 coaches are commonly available, plus various DMUs. We could do with a new 90, 91 and mk4s I’ll concede, and various EMUs are lacking (in both scales), but I think I’d say it’s disingenuous to say it’s hard to model the last 10 years.