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  1. Has anyone got pictures of the BG MKIIIs yet? Can we confirm those are in "as built" condition without CDL?
  2. "Huge"? "Significant" maybe, but not "Huge". There's "only" two 3rd rail lines there and total length would be less than London-Bournemouth I'd have thought.
  3. These look to be moulded integral to the glazing, unless I'm seeing that wrong?
  4. Oooh, will be interesting to see how the curtains come out when printed... Don't think I've seen this approach before.
  5. I think the MK1 and MK2 coaches have done well for Hornby, ditto the Tornado and Crosti 9F. As it stands, much of the TT range is very much "design clever" and much the better for it.
  6. There were 0.9, 1.0, 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 mm hex bits in the set I linked...
  7. Or, just sell them as are, and people will buy them like they always do. Once they're at the retailer, they're not Hornby's problem any more.
  8. You might be surprised. That's a handle and lamp bracket you don't have to manufacture and assemble as well. So you've very possibly just removed 2-3 people from the assembly line by doing this effectively. Tooling modification would be in the low 10's of thousand $ or less I would have thought, probably a lot less if a simple modification to existing tooling rather than a new tooling.
  9. We have had some tooling in the past from Hornby assembled using the wrong parts; Notably B-Set carriages on B4 bogies. Someone grabbed bogies from the wrong bucket of Airfix bits ("B4 Bogie" rather than "B Set Bogie" perhaps) not knowing any better. So, speculatively what we might have is "someone" making an accidental or deliberate substitution at the factory with a part out of a similarly named "8F" bin of parts. If deliberate, it would be an effort to reduce assembly steps and hence reduce assembly costs. If accidental, for some reason they had that bucket of parts sitting around for some reason.
  10. iFixit stuff is top shelf indeed but it lasts (though doesn't come with all the plastic sludgers which can be useful for getting into coaches and locos).
  11. Indeed or something like ... SHARDEN 122-Piece Precision Screwdriver Set, Magnetic Small Screwdriver Set, Electronic Repair Tool Kit DIY Screwdriver Kit for Phone, PC, Laptop, iPhone, Computer, MacBook, PS4, Nintendo, Xbox, Ring : Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools
  12. Though you imply by the use of "modify" that it is descended from the same tooling as the 80's one... It's not modified, it was completely new tooling.
  13. A "Ready to Run" Taylor Swift model, I'd buy that for a dollar! [hat and coat in procurement and pre-exit mode]
  14. The Dapol model was announced years ago and has been in the development doldrums most of that time. Revolution noticed the opportunity and leapt in, seemingly spurring Dapol to actually speed up development.
  15. Mind you, the chassis is completely new being metal, but clearly Hornby wanted to stick with the power bogie they had rather than go for a low profile central drive to both bogies as they were needing to tool up a new interior anyway etc., A missed opportunity.
  16. But 12 - 2 ~= 8... Just saying...
  17. The GWR coaches eventually got Collet style bogies as well.
  18. I suspect the biggest improvement would be in the number of pickups (the original will have the one rail on one bogie and the other rail on the other setup of Hornby's whereas the new one will have all wheel pick up (including from the traction tyred wheels)), and the paint job will be better (though the 110 was around the start of where Hornby really started upping their game and minimal use of self coloured plastic and lots of printed details).
  19. If you're going to do any one of those, there are obvious bolt ons; 312 - 310 313 and 315 - 314, 507 and 508 317 - 318, 455, 456
  20. Particular locos are on the list; But it would seem that Dapol are able to produce (in N, can't find any details of their Black Label 00 models at the moment) 2S-011-008A3 Flying Scotsman 60103 BR Green Late Crest (As Preserved) 2S-008-016A4 Valanced Mallard 4468 Garter Blue & 4 Gresley Teak Coaches 2S-008-017A4 Sir Nigel Gresley 60007 BR Express Blue E/C as preserved Which might suggest the licences are not that exclusive (to a particular scale at best) Also, Bachmann also produce; 32-550DLNER A1 60163 'Tornado' BR Lined Green (Late Crest) And have previously done 5 versions of it, ditto Mallard, Sir Nigel Gresley and Bittern I'm suspecting many of those licences are non-exclusive.
  21. Do they though? And if they do, is it an exclusive license? If Hornby can apparently sell A3s and A4s by the truck load (across several detail levels) then why wouldn't it behove another manufacturer to produce a "more definitive" version? Bachmann's A4 did very well for a long time given the age of the tooling, so why not do a new one?
  22. I was meaning the 71; The CAD from that could probably be used as a basis for 74 or modification of the 71 bodywork tooling, and an EFE rework on the drive chain as we have seen before as I understand it.
  23. It might depend where the DJM tooling and CAD ended up, and which manufacturer/brand has reinvigorated some of that in the past already as to what relative chances might be.
  24. This is where the Bachmann EZ-Mate NEM couplings score, though only available in one length.
  25. To be fair, yes, we have roughly 10-15 times the number of liners visiting Orkney than stop at Oban (though some of those are the same ones...). I find it rather amusing when Amsterdam kicks off saying 15 liners a year is just too much for them to handle (Orkney has 270+ liner stops this summer scheduled). Yes. These year we have one occasion with 5 (admittedly these are all very small ones), 3 with 4 and 17 days with 3 arriving at the connected Mainland. and probably about 30 days with 2.
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