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Thanks for the update.

 

My problem is, I'm a member of the Dapol club, I ordered special editions models direct from Dapol in October 2020, to date my emails have been ignored and I haven't received a single piece of correspondence from Dapol, their is also no means I can find to comment via the Dapol club forum page.

 

I suspect PP Performance is going to result in me cancelling my order, because I'm fed up being ignored.

 

David 

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1 hour ago, MGR Hooper! said:


This is news to me, when did that happen?

 

Bit irritating as they just ended it without warning but at least you don’t need to join the club to get certain models ;) 

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Hattons say 4th Q, but we have not seen livery samples yet so that may be optimistic. Also I believe they're being released in stages depending on lighting type (oil then gas then electric)

Looks like they'll be worth the wait though.

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1 hour ago, MarcD said:

Does anyone believe the current delivery dates?

Amazingly some people obviously still do!

 

My observation is that things generally arrive about 3 months after they announce they are in production. Until then it's out of everyone except the factory's hands so little point taking any notice of suggested dates.

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I'm currently thinking that I'm not going to have them in my had before 20th of November so I'm going to have to have alternative options. Which will either be kits from either Roxey mouldings or Ian McCormick or print some coaches.

 

Mmmm 

 

Marc

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5 minutes ago, hartleymartin said:

Can't seem to find much information about them. Not even sure of the final price.

 

Tower models have information and prices listed on their page for these coaches. For some reason I can't link directly to the page as just comes up as tower-models.com on my phone 

 

Also, for those who may not have seen Dapol showed a bit of a uk production update with in for on new injection moulding machines and a bit about what is produced the uk. It also featured a small section on the Stroudleys. 

 

https://www.Dapol.co.uk/Dapol-Continue-To-Invest-In-UK-Production

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1 hour ago, PaulRhB said:

Well it does look like a veneer of wood. How accurate that style is for those I’m not sure. 

 

On the real thing, it's not veneer - a thin layer applied to a substrate - but panel, typically ⅜" thick. I read that West Indian mahogany was used for these carriages; I think that sample does look like mahogany - lacking the more pronounced graininess of teak and being redder in colour. But I wouldn't like to say if the scale of the pattern is correct.

 

This was the livery up to c. 1903, so is appropriate for a yellow Terrier.

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11 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

lacking the more pronounced graininess of teak and being redder in colour. But I wouldn't like to say if the scale of the pattern is correct.

It certainly looks ok for scale when compared to mahogany panels in Victorian homes that come up on a search. There’s such a variety of mahogany though I wouldn’t know which it is but it looks ok compared to those panels.

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5 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Limit the search to West Indian or Cuban Mahogany.

I did but when you click on the links it’s frequently not that ;) it seems to latch onto mahogany as the primary term. All I mean is be wary as there are some that look similar but generally it doesn’t specifically identify the wood. 
Im just treating Google searches with caution as I’d want to consult specialist furniture books to print a pattern and I’d guess Dapol have to come up with that. 
When I worked casting and making models, pre the www, we used quite a lot of books as references and there was a superb one on patination of metals with big panel pics of the genuine article and then chemical mixes to recreate it fast. I’d assume there are similar furniture restoration sources in the French polishing industry that will give good examples for identification and recreation for repairs. 

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5 minutes ago, MarcD said:

They may have announced that there will be some new terriers but you can't see what they are. There looks like one in IEG but which one?

 

Marc

Stepney & Wapping in IEG, SR green B653 & BR late crest 32662 according to Rails. 
 

https://railsofsheffield.com/collections/Dapol/class_terrier+scale_o-gauge+availability_pre-order

 

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I have 5 in IEG, two in LSWR green and a Fenchurch, which is waiting conversion to a NSWGR N67, already and I'm going to have to buy two more now. that will be 10 in total.  I think that they are very bad people.

 

 

Marc

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