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The Wales and West 90s blue ones would be nice for a second run, bonus points would be 37412 to go with it!

slightly different wagons - the Hornby one is diagram 1/800, this is 1/801

Same here, though my primary reason is to have Railcom support. Realistically ESU seems the most reliable game in town for that.

I ordered one so I’ll let you know how I get on. First experiences with 1999.jp - you place your order and then once they confirm stock they send a paypal link a day-ish after. After shipping it came to £99ish. From my limited googling on this, Japanese HO is 1:80 rather than 1:87, so this could hopefully pass the squint test. My plan is to kit bash it a bit - add a buffer beam, change the lights to wipacs and maybe change the roof a bit. Hopefully it’ll look ok without the noise barrier over the tamping part which seems to be specifically for the Japanese prototype. There are quite a few instruction diagrams on their site if you click around a bit.

It’s all gone a bit quiet with these, I’m assuming we won’t be making Q2 2023 as per the projects page?

order just gone in! +1 for more MAT numbers, and/or MAT with the roof

Now that the latest batch have started to drop in price a bit, I’ve been looking at renumbering options. I’m coming up a bit blank for easy options for 423 though - I’m not averse to a bit of modelling but does anyone have any ideas of fairly easy projects from that one?

It’s the loop just west of Slough station I think!

And with a smaller 3d printed 60 perched on the front of it?

I agree broadly with the issues around duplication, but I think particularly 008, 015, 149 are ripe for another run in 90s condition, given how rare and expensive good ones are on eBay. Let’s throw in 046 just because too!

looking great! will the snowploughs be included in the bag for every model or just some of them?

regarding the 50, and at the risk of wishlisting - 90s style 008, 015 and 149 go for a lot on ebay when they come up. Another run of those wouldn’t go amiss, especially given the prevalence of other 80s/90s models that seem to sell well.

I suspect it’s quite hard to guess. If you assume everyone is doing full rakes then the real railway gives you the answers, but once people only have room for say 4 coaches which ones would they get? if you assume a typical cross country rake is 4 TSO + BSO + FO, would you take out 2 TSOs or drop a TSO + FO? it muddies the water further on a second run as you then have people buying stuff they couldn’t get in the first run. You could probably assume 2-3x TSO as the others would hit the mark, but I wouldn’t want to be the one who has to get it right! Ironically the preorder model could help here, but only if you announce way ahead of production so you then have an idea on how many to make.

AFAIK they got a repaint in original yeoman too. One giveaway is that the orange line was originally above the top blue line, then moved to run through the middle. So hopefully they are on the ball and marry up the modified exhaust with the moved cantrail line.

I'm pretty sure they announced 59002, did those first samples as this, then announced it has been renumbered to 005. Perhaps they had tooled the roof based on the /1 (005 is more similar to the 59/1s) and didn't realise that they'd need to change it for 1-4? I'd like to have several yeoman and ARC ones, so I'm hoping for an original yeoman 1-4 in the second run to renumber.