RMweb Premium E100 Posted December 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 1, 2021 This has gone very quiet. The Mk5's are inching forwards and it would be nice for these to be not too far behind? I wonder if KMS are waiting for Model Rail Scotland 2022 (late Feb) for a final push before committing? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted December 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2021 (edited) This threads had 22k views, the class 37/4 thread has 11k… it seems to be winning on the interest stakes.. Edited December 1, 2021 by adb968008 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomScrut Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 2 hours ago, E100 said: This has gone very quiet. The Mk5's are inching forwards and it would be nice for these to be not too far behind? I wonder if KMS are waiting for Model Rail Scotland 2022 (late Feb) for a final push before committing? They are maybe already on with it. It's a long time now since AS announced anything that wasn't in the advanced stages (tooling samples at least). 8 minutes ago, adb968008 said: This threads had 22k views, the class 37/4 thread has 11k… it seems to be winning on the interest stakes.. That's probably because most of the activity for the 37/4 happens in the main 37 thread (I aren't really sure why it has its own thread TBH). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ERIC ALLTORQUE Posted December 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 1, 2021 And Fran had a day off the other day so it will have had a big effect on things in general,that must be two this year......... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold McC Posted December 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2021 (edited) 15 minutes ago, ERIC ALLTORQUE said: And Fran had a day off the other day so it will have had a big effect on things in general,that must be two this year......... nah we only gave him a half day the last time! Edited December 1, 2021 by McC 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium E100 Posted January 25, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 25, 2022 Hopefully there'll be an announcement at Model Rail Scotland... 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDG Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 2 hours ago, E100 said: Hopefully there'll be an announcement at Model Rail Scotland... Could be expensive.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Seems to have gone the same way as the 0 gauge HST project. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Accurascale Fran Posted January 25, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 25, 2022 Hi Everyone, Just a very quick update on this one. Unfortunately we will no longer be working on this project. We wish KMS Railtec all the best with it in finding it a new home and every success with it he project when it comes to market in the future. Cheers! Fran 1 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Lol, and there we go...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 46444 Posted January 25, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Accurascale Fran said: Hi Everyone, Just a very quick update on this one. Unfortunately we will no longer be working on this project. We wish KMS Railtec all the best with it in finding it a new home and every success with it he project when it comes to market in the future. It is a real shame this project has faltered. Unfortunately the lack of updates and positivity towards the project did not bode well. The 73/9's are part of the current motive power scene from the South of England to Scotland and in between. They certainly deserve a state of the art model which I feel Accurascale would have provided for KMS Railtec and still can as part of the Accurascale range I believe. Having seen the Caley Sleeper 73/9's in the Highlands I was looking forwards to this model appearing to run with the Accurascale Mk5 Sleeper coaches. Here's hoping we will see this distinctive and charactermastic class of locomotives available in 4mm scale eventually. Thanks to Accurascale for the long awaited and not too surprising update. Cheers, Mark 1 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium E100 Posted January 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 26, 2022 (edited) Oh dear that's really not great news. I do hope someone else picks this up as they are critical for use with the highland mk5's on smaller layouts. I'm quite surprised they haven't picked up enough interest since they are all over the place on all different sorts of things, many of which are already/soon to be in model form. I maintain that it's a natural Accurascale product and it wouldn't surprise me if they were to create this as a non-KMS exclusive once an acceptable time has elapsed and confirming that KMS are not looking to do this with an alternative manufacture. The expression of interest form is still on the website. Assuming they're at Model Rail Scotland I'll politely ask what the situation is to try and glean information unless they post here. Another thought is that this may have been a victim of covid. My understanding is that KMS normally do visit a number of shows. The lack of shows has probably had a big impact on it's publicity and therefore viability. Edited January 26, 2022 by E100 Extra thoughts 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMS Railtech Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share Posted January 26, 2022 UPDATE: We were hoping we could "let the cat out the bag" with a little more detail! However, while, as Fran says, the 73/9 is not going ahead with Accurascale, this is due to the number of projects on their horizon and not due to lack of interest in this model. Our aim is to give more details on our stand at Model Rail Scotland at the end of February (however this will now be a bit less of a surprise!). While we were initially disappointed to learn that Accurascale could no longer produce the model, we are confident we have now found a manufacturer who will offer the same exacting standards we are looking for in this model. We would encourage you to continue to fill in the EOI form HERE Team KMS 5 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMS Railtech Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share Posted January 26, 2022 UPDATE: We were hoping we could "let the cat out the bag" with a little more detail! However, while, as Fran says, the 73/9 is not going ahead with Accurascale, this is due to the number of projects on their horizon and not due to lack of interest in this model. Our aim is to give more details on our stand at Model Rail Scotland at the end of February (however this will now be a bit less of a surprise!). While we were initially disappointed to learn that Accurascale could no longer produce the model, we are confident we have now found a manufacturer who will offer the same exacting standards we are looking for in this model. We would encourage you to continue to fill in the EOI form HERE Team KMS 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium E100 Posted January 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 26, 2022 Thanks so much for the update! Look forward to seeing you there at Model Rail Scotland! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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