Andy Y Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Bachmann today unveiled first samples of the DP1 Prototype Delticlocomotive at the British Railway Modelling Festival of ModelRailways held at Alexandra Palace this weekend. Thenew model announced earlier this month at the Model & Hobby Showin Coventry utilises the award winning 3D scanned body profile of theactual locomotive, the first time that this technology has been usedfor a UK N scale model. TheFarish model will have a prototypical gap between the body and bogieframes, a fully detailed body and fuel tanks including the waterscoop and recessed fan details with etched grills, another first forUK N scale models as this will be the first to have correctlyrecessed fans with separate etched grilles instead of engravedrepresentation. Otherfeatures will included wire handles for the cab doors, metal ovalbuffer heads, detailing parts including a dummy screw link coupling,vacuum pipes and drop plate. Anextra bogie frame moulding will be supplied to allow the user toremove the NEM coupling box if required to enable front end detail tobe applied.  NEM coupling pockets are provided with short or longcouplings supplied, the shorter couplings being provided in theaccessory bag. Themodel will have a powerful six axle drive chassis with twinflywheels, bi-directional lighting, detailed cab interiors and a 6pin decoder socket for DCC users. Thisexciting model builds on the success of the OO scale version whichwas recently voted model of the decade in the Model Rail / RMWeb /MREMAG Model of the Year awards. Twoliveries will be carried by the new N Scale model. The first versionusing the livery carried during in traffic trials on British Railwayswill be available in ‘The Merseyside Express’ set (CatalogueNumber 370-275) whilst the individual model will represent thelocomotive as preserved by the National Railway Museum (CatalogueNumber 372-920). Both versions will be available later  this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 another first forUK N scale models as this will be the first to have correctlyrecessed fans with separate etched grilles instead of engravedrepresentation. Actually CJM were the first to do this r-t-r, with their Class 73 in the early 1990s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 That looks brilliant, can you imagine that level of detail on a production Deltic as well. The standard of this moulding shows another massive leap in quality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Wow, that was pretty quick work. It is great to see announcements followed so quickly by models. Any further announcements of new stuff? (still keeping my fingers crossed for an N gauge City of Truro). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TomE Posted March 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2010 It did look very impressive and has clearly benefitted from the technique used to produce the OO version. Here's a very bad mobile phone pic of the roof showing fan detail: Now, how do I justify one on the MML in the present day.....?! Tom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted March 27, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2010 No fair! I don't need an N gauge one! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 It looks better than the OO one!, the body is in better proportion.... nice one all round. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted March 27, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27, 2010 And... on the T gauge stand at Ally Pally, a T gauge etched brass 'kit' of DP1 with one already made and painted! Seems like we missed a scale though as I don't know of one in Z... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigwelsh Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 It looks better than the OO one!, the body is in better proportion.... nice one all round. Not sure what you mean there, the body proportions are going to be identical but it'll just be smaller. It does show up how you lose crispness of detail in N though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Not sure what you mean there, the body proportions are going to be identical but it'll just be smaller. It does show up how you lose crispness of detail in N though. The bogies are wider than the slightly underwidth OO ones, the scale /track relationship should be better with N gauge anyway, not as good as 2mm though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigwelsh Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 The bogies are wider than the slightly underwidth OO ones, the scale /track relationship should be better with N gauge anyway, not as good as 2mm though. Ah ok, see what you mean. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold LH&JC Posted March 31, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 31, 2010 I seriously cannot tell that the model is N gauge! (Note to self, resist the temptation of N gauge!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmthtrains - David Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Of great interest to me is that in developing this model, Farish have had to build a low profile chassis block to allow them to fit in the properly recessed fans and grills. This low profile chassis, of course, is the reported reason why the class 70 is coming out in OO first rather than both together, as it needs such a chassis to get the narrow width. With the chassis now done for the Deltic, I would not be too surprised if we got an N gauge 70 popping up later in the year! David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Not sure what you mean there, the body proportions are going to be identical but it'll just be smaller. It does show up how you lose crispness of detail in N though. Not sure what you mean there. There might be a little less detail with N gauge and a little smaller, but surely the level of crispness of what detail there is is just the same. It certainly looks like that. G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylvian Tennant Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Wow I want a piece of that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigwelsh Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Not sure what you mean there. There might be a little less detail with N gauge and a little smaller, but surely the level of crispness of what detail there is is just the same. It certainly looks like that. G. Bachmann plastic is always a bit soapy compared to Hornby and it does make things like panel lines less crisp, the panel on the nose sides of the Warship are probably the most obvious. Its things like the door area that show it up on DP1 but i'd agree its probably the best N gauge diesel we'll see so far. I don't think the amount of detail is much lower actually, it looks like they have done a very good job incorporating the detail. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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