DoctorLard7
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If it hasn't progressed past a certain point, rejig the project up to O perhaps?
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I think Dapol want to build towards an O gauge range like there already exists in OO where you can get pretty much any stock that was widespread/common in RTR, Conflat suits that aim regardless of any good kits out there, especially with the growing RTR market for O.
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https://www.Hornby.com/uk-en/memberships
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Plus they haven't really discounted them yet so they should be doing fine.
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Plus they haven't really discounted them yet so they should be doing fine.
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Cant say i was expecting stuff local to me was gonna show up on here!
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On 27/01/2020 at 08:22, NeilHB said:
Thanks BG4.
The coffeepots will be scratchbuilt - below is the current idea for them:
Its based on a Markham product from the 1880s built for a 3’6” logging tramway in New Zealand which is now preserved after spending several years in the bush (shades of Duke The Lost Engine anyone?!). They also built some standard gauge products so I assumed that Topham Hatt may have seen one and decided that it would do nicely for the tramway...
The cunning plan involves the use of a resin kit to provide some of the components - just waiting for that to arrive so I can do some more planning.
Yes the vertical boiler locos book is rather good and a key tome in my reference library.
http://www.australiansteam.com/Vertical Boiler.htm
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48 minutes ago, The Johnster said:
Probably not. There's been no upgrade to the shorty clerestories and accompanying Dean Single, or ex-Airfix auto trailer, for example, and one cannot point to a history of previous upgrading of amortised toolings. Hornby have had a Princess Elizabeth in the range since Rovex days but it has always been re-tooled, never upgraded. Smokey Joe and his chums got a new mech a few years ago, as did some of the Railroad 0-6-0s using the generic Jinty mech. In any case, as I understand it (and I'll be the first to admit that my knowledge of injection moulding practice is less than encyclopedic), it is no easier, quicker, or cheaper to 'upgrade' toolings than it is to re-tool from scratch, which is the most desirable outcome IMHO for the likes of the 2721 or J83, or the auto trailer, anyway. Of course the price goes up, but so does the quality.
I stuffed up my wording, i meant having entirely new CADs and plans etc ready to go to tooling in the locker that they can bring forward if someone else makes a move, i should have been clearer.
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I wonder if Hornby have a list of older toolings of models they need to upgrade and develop them to a point where they can get them out within a year of announcement if they sense competition, by holding a spare slot at the factory that they can fill with whatever they feel challenged on, or otherwise fill with something new if there is no competition and keep squeezing what they can out of the older tool until someone else tries something.
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An O gauge expansion into the NE with something like a J94 or J72 with some associated rolling stock would have to be on the cards for this year, also another small shunter sized loco like the Sentinel to shift units and lower the barrier to entry into O further.
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Assuming it does well, i wonder if it will lead to an eventual range of pioneer locos.
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Surely they should have been saving the Bassett-Lowke name for proper finescale O gauge, I know the frequenters of a site like this probably aren't the target audience for this but I just don't see this working very well.
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1 hour ago, ba14eagle said:
How about a range of O gauge items?
Recent models like the Pecketts, Sentinel diesels and Ruston would really suit O if they can hit that ~200 pound mark like Dapol
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Sonic Models OO Gauge Robinson A5
in Rails of Sheffield
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We have a winner!