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  1. We know that already, Heljan were pitching at a £199 price point for their 31 as against say £125 ish where the Hornby diesels are. I suspect much of that was down to Heljan going down the route of detail used for their 00 models rather than Hornby's more "Design Clever" route.
  2. The fact that Heljan got as far as they did with the 31 indicates "8 years" might be overly pessimistic, I suspect the other manufacturers are taking stock of a) Hornby's development pipeline timescales first and b) the uptake of the scale. Duplication this early in the game is exceptionally counterproductive. Heljan were unfortunate to have been pre-empted with the 31, but they are probably well set up to get one or more of a 20, 25, 26, 27, 33 or maybe even a 24 to market within a 24 month timescale if they had the confidence to do so.
  3. There's actually quite a bit of possible synergy. Scenics and buildings in particular.
  4. These almost look ready made for the Caledonian Sleeper service it must be said, should new traction be sought in the next few years though I think there might be a problem on the West Highland line with the RA... So maybe not on that route.
  5. I'd suspect not; They're listed as 86 tonnes but with 4 axles, and the 37 is 100 tonnes on 6 axles so maybe RA6 rather than the 37's RA5.
  6. Probably accurately scaled MK3s might be a better starting point ;)
  7. The decision to produce the 2e and the 2f simultaneously was a "because they could" rather than "because they should" decision. One or other should have been left as a tooling option that could go to production later, because at a casual glance 90% of modellers wouldn't see the difference between them, we effectively end up with a double size production batch of a coach type that has no appropriate locomotives to be pulled by available at the same time. If rather than double down on the MK2 they'd scheduled more livery choices for the MK1 instead we'd have curiously missing blue grey and chocolate and cream versions we need to cover the locos that are planned. As it is, we'll never be short of MK2 aircons (no bad thing in and of itself).
  8. Quite probably, BUT you'd have lost one of the driving vehicles completely to the necessary 3000+ HP of generator.
  9. But as I said, what's with the MK2 e AND f..? That's a couple of production slots that could have been used for other coaches, say a pair of Gresley gangwayed stock, or Blue Grey MK1s which are conspicuously absent at present.
  10. Yet doubled down on the MK2e/f... when one or the other would have been more than sufficient at this stage of the game. More MK1s will always make sense.
  11. I'd have thought they were more closely related to the Class 210?
  12. I was just going off of what the press release said, in which the Locomotion models under the Railway Icons branding would be those in the as preserved condition in the National Collection, and that exclusively with Rails would be in service variants from that tooling. If you look at the production partners associated with the Railway Icons range, the possible answer presents itself if they head down that path.
  13. The Locomotion models are only of the locos in the collection as preserved, the Rails side of the collaboration is for in service versions and variants of those prototypes, so there may well be a follow up announcement down the line (and then we can get all the livery variants over the years...)
  14. That'll be what we'll be seeing from the Rails side of things most likely. The Locomotion models are "as preserved".
  15. As I understand it, there was a difference in the control systems between the EMUs and DEMUs which would come into play. The two types couldn't work together so effectively isolating the two from each other would stop the problem occurring (because let's face it, if you could connect two MU types together, SR would do it). So that might have pre-empted the obvious step of making the DEMUs bimode.
  16. The set numbers persisted well into 80's. But a quick trawl around seems to indicate that first ones didn't have them in 1977 but the stripe is present in PCs in 1979 so there is definitely crossover.
  17. With the right code framework (and plenty are available), the size of your team should have no real impact on cross platform development. If you chose to develop with no such framework, start on one and then port to the other then again your team size will have little effect on the self inflicted shots to your feet.
  18. The "obvious" gaps for now for another manufacturer would be classes 20, 24/25, 26/27/33, 40, 44/45/46, 55 and 56 (which mildly favours potential activity from Heljan over the others out there).
  19. And that's all about ownership of tooling and/or source CAD files and/or "loopholes" in contracts
  20. Which could perhaps be a way for Bachmann Europe to unclog its (unseen) development backlog against the internally imposed production allocation.
  21. A big factor for Bluray was the Playstation 3 having it (it worked out to be a relatively cheap BD player at the time) which pushed a lot of purchasing of films during the initial games content drought, but there was plenty of early adult content on HD-DVD (JVC again...) and no region locking on any content.
  22. There's also the porn factor, Sony originally blocked adult content being released on Betamax, JVC didn't care, that was a major driving factor in the rental market as well...
  23. And pretty much has done since Android launched (and I very much had a professional interest then...).
  24. Not if you're criticising the questions, and hence the questioner. 😃
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