MGR Hooper! Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 (edited) Hornby PLC has announced the autumn - winter 2018 range for it's Hornby International brands, the range can be viewed here:-https://cloud.Hornby.com/index.php/s/H8KHe3rhvffDLGZ Edited July 3, 2018 by MGR Hooper! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozwarrior Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 I notice no Lima, or is it usually under Rivarossi? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Ooooooh another anouncement of an announcement........I'm overwhelmed! Must go and sit in a dark corner. Stewart 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted June 22, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2018 Whoopee they must be reintroducing the River Bridge in 4 European ranges. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike at C&M Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 I notice no Lima, or is it usually under Rivarossi? The Lima brand name is now rarely used. Broadly speaking, Jouef covers 'HO' French, Electrotren covers Spanish 'HO' and Rivarossi covers everything else in 'HO', Arnold is the 'N' gauge range. I suspect there will be nothing earth shattering here-in. Their respective catalogues are a lot slimmer than they were a few years ago, and it will be great to see a number of previously released models make a comeback. Plenty of scope for producing items without incurring new tooling costs. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 22, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 22, 2018 The Lima brand name is now rarely used. Broadly speaking, Jouef covers 'HO' French, Electrotren covers Spanish 'HO' and Rivarossi covers everything else in 'HO', Arnold is the 'N' gauge range. I suspect there will be nothing earth shattering here-in. Their respective catalogues are a lot slimmer than they were a few years ago, and it will be great to see a number of previously released models make a comeback. Plenty of scope for producing items without incurring new tooling costs. Perhaps the Electroten ABJs will reappear. They strike me as great value. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted June 22, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2018 The Lima Expert range did some wonderful models, the E636 and E645/6 were superbly done and as good as any HO I've seen. I have examples of both and the weird thing is they're identical to the same prototypes as modelled by LE Models. And I mean identical, even the packaging (apart from the graphic design) is identical, you might say that two models of the same prototype should e the same but when it extends to the way the models have been designed and manufactured it infers either the companies are connected in some way or there is something going on with the tooling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Ben Posted June 22, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 22, 2018 Hello all, I hope the photo on the cover is a portent of something new in N. I feel that Italian railways are a significantly untapped market for N gauge suppliers. cheers Ben A. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbox321 Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 Thinking Laterally-----Wonder what Hattons will be announcing on the 3rd of July then.................. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
73080 Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 The Lima Expert range did some wonderful models, the E636 and E645/6 were superbly done and as good as any HO I've seen. I have examples of both and the weird thing is they're identical to the same prototypes as modelled by LE Models. And I mean identical, even the packaging (apart from the graphic design) is identical, you might say that two models of the same prototype should e the same but when it extends to the way the models have been designed and manufactured it infers either the companies are connected in some way or there is something going on with the tooling. LE Models was established following the closure of the Hornby Italian model railway design department (Lima Expert) c3 years ago. At the time there was speculation on the Italian equivalent of RMweb (forum-duegieditrice) as to the terms of the 'redundancy agreement'. Whilst I am not aware of any formal statement from either party, the consensensus of posts on the website forum was that LE Models had acquired the rights to the prototype E646 model. As for the E636, whilst LE Models acquired the right to use the tooling, there was uncertainty as to whether they acquired exclusive rights or shared rights with Hornby. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted June 23, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 23, 2018 LE Models was established following the closure of the Hornby Italian model railway design department (Lima Expert) c3 years ago. At the time there was speculation on the Italian equivalent of RMweb (forum-duegieditrice) as to the terms of the 'redundancy agreement'. Whilst I am not aware of any formal statement from either party, the consensensus of posts on the website forum was that LE Models had acquired the rights to the prototype E646 model. As for the E636, whilst LE Models acquired the right to use the tooling, there was uncertainty as to whether they acquired exclusive rights or shared rights with Hornby. I always suspected something like that, as there is no way two models produced by the same companies could be identical in every way down to packaging by accident. However there would appear to be something of an on-going arrangement as some Lima Expert models have been released more recently also mirroring LE releases. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellocoloco Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 (edited) The LE/lima collaboration detailed above is a not first for Hornby Int'l. The ACME Traxx was decorated for, and released by Electrotren as their Renfe 253. I expect there are more 'mould sharing' exercises out there and it would make sense in a diminishing specialist market. I'm looking forward to seeing what the announcement will be. Edited June 29, 2018 by ellocoloco Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted June 30, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 30, 2018 Hornby has posted a teaser on Facebook showing someone from Hornby looking at a CAD, that is supposedly one of the new announcements. Comments suggest it’s a coach. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brigo Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 Hornby has posted a teaser on Facebook showing someone from Hornby looking at a CAD, that is supposedly one of the new announcements. Comments suggest it’s a coach. As it's got round buffers and the door is recessed with a step below, I would say it's a fairly old coach, 1920/30's maybe. Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted June 30, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 30, 2018 Hornby has posted a teaser on Facebook showing someone from Hornby looking at a CAD, that is supposedly one of the new announcements. Comments suggest it’s a coach. It’s probably from the Docklands Light Railway Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hilux5972 Posted July 1, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2018 Oh no, there’s nothing for me, it’s not my era, it’s not my region, it’s not my colour. Sorry I slipped into a parallel dimension for a second when I became a moaning person. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted July 2, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2018 As it's got round buffers and the door is recessed with a step below, I would say it's a fairly old coach, 1920/30's maybe. Brian So perhaps one of the coaches in the Hornby image in the first post above? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted July 2, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2018 Hornby international 2018 range here... Looks like a lot of n gauge stuff. In HO it all looks like stuff we've seen before. https://www.Hornby.com/uk-en/media/INT_SS_2018.pdf Talgo in another livery (that train scares me). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGR Hooper! Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 (edited) Hornby international 2018 range here... Looks like a lot of n gauge stuff. In HO it all looks like stuff we've seen before. https://www.Hornby.com/uk-en/media/INT_SS_2018.pdf Talgo in another livery (that train scares me). Looks like you've linked the older 2018 Range. Hornby International are doing a Spring-Summer (which you linked) and Autumn-Winter announcement. See this link:- https://cloud.Hornby.com/index.php/s/H8KHe3rhvffDLGZ Edited July 3, 2018 by MGR Hooper! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 That's better, thanks. Looks a bit more interesting even though I couldn't spot that much, anyone else find that link incredibly slow? I managed to dowload the pdf but it was still 'jumpy'. Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted July 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2018 Looks like you've linked the older 2018 Range. Hornby International are doing a Spring-Summer (which you linked) and Autumn-Winter announcement. See this link:- https://cloud.Hornby.com/index.php/s/H8KHe3rhvffDLGZ Firefox does not like that link at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Looks like you've linked the older 2018 Range. Hornby International are doing a Spring-Summer (which you linked) and Autumn-Winter announcement. See this link:- https://cloud.Hornby.com/index.php/s/H8KHe3rhvffDLGZ What I got was this: "This site is not secure This might mean that someone’s trying to fool you or steal any info you send to the server. You should close this site immediately." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted July 3, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2018 (edited) I just tried again. It gave me Hornbys cloud server with a login page. I hit blank and it took me to the Hornby R&D 5 year plan page with all the models they plan to release.. At least that’s that’s how I translated the page from what I saw... see for yourself.. Edited July 3, 2018 by adb968008 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted July 3, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 3, 2018 Some interesting items in the Autumn-Winter range. An all new SNCF 66400 loco from Jouef and from Rivarossi the FS E402A in XPMR livery will have electric couplings to work the automatic doors on coaches. I've seen some coaches with this but didn't know there were any in the Rivarossi range. The new coaches would appear to be the Treno Azzuro 1959 stock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted July 3, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 3, 2018 I just tried again. It gave me Hornbys cloud server with a login page. I hit blank and it took me to the Hornby R&D 5 year plan page with all the models they plan to release.. At least that’s that’s how I translated the page from what I saw... see for yourself..8CBDA8DB-49BC-4B38-868B-754804EC8368.jpeg If you can't get the page to open (IE works, what a surprise!), you can now see the full list of models including the Autumn-Winter releases on the Hornby website https://www.Hornby.com/uk-en/shop/international-brands.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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