RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted December 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2020 I would certainly buy any Wantage Tramway locomotives in 1:43 scale with No.5 "Jane" as the prime contender! There are just so many fine and interesting locos - another prime contender would be a model of the M&SWJR No.8 "Beyer Peacock" 2-4-0T - or the similar SMJR verion No.5 and others! I know there have been some fancy kits but the are so desireable they would be welcome as RTR in "0"! Regards Chris H 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted December 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2020 1 hour ago, BMacdermott said: Hello CloggyDog Thanks very much - we weren't aware of that. Perhaps there is potential? Brian (on behalf of The Quirky Poll Team) There have been two tinplate operating models too in the past, here’s one http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/CPWuppModelRR.html Now to voting thanks 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Can't see the Springfield Monorail anywhere on the list. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenser Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 As the owner of a boxfile: BR Ns.15097-15099 Y10 Double-ended Sentinel Lancing Carriage Works Shunter No.DS49 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MPR Posted December 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2020 What about a British prototype fireless steam locomotive for the poll next year? Definitely quirky, maybe even a contender for a conventional wish-list? 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 21 minutes ago, MPR said: What about a British prototype fireless steam locomotive for the poll next year? Definitely quirky, maybe even a contender for a conventional wish-list? Now, if they were to bring out a Bagnall 0-4-0F, that's one I would buy - especially if it was in H&P colours! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Well, I’m not into the spirit of this thing at all. I voted for what were probably three of the least quirky items on the list. I have A4s, a streamlined P2 and a rebuilt LNER 10000, so a streamlined B17 would complete the quartet nicely. The LMS “garden shed” shunter was the first in a line of shunters which led (eventually) to the numerous 08s. Finally, Locomotion sits nicely in the gap between Trevithick’s pioneer and Rocket. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted December 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 25, 2020 10 hours ago, melmerby said: How about the Patiala State Monorail? IIRC someone on here was building one. 10 hours ago, BMacdermott said: Thanks melmerby - I will put that on the suggestions for 2021 list. Brian @Stubby47 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted December 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 25, 2020 12 hours ago, BMacdermott said: Hello Baz I don't buy that 'we have it in' for Judith Edge Kits. Some are suggestions from us; other suggestions were from voters last year. Brian (on behalf of The Quirky Poll Team) Yes I see your point. The problem is that once an rtr version is announced sales must dry up.. Sentinel.. Hornby.. not bad but has faults Ruston 48DS.. Hornby.. needs a match truck to make it work Janus.. Golden Valley.. loads of these going cheap.. not very accurate Clayton.. Heljan.. ran like a dog Fell.. KRModels..eventually.. Hunslet 16".. rapido with quirky mechanism So these quirky locos go into rtr world leaving kit designers facing no chance of recovering their own costs..do the manufacturers do any research of their own? Baz 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Phil Parker Posted December 25, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 25, 2020 I'm pretty sure Judith Edge stills sells Sentinel kits even after the Hornby model arrived, something that surprised me. The 48ds doesn't need a match wagon if your track is OK. And without it, it runs better than my kit built version. Hunslet from Rapido? You are criticising a mechanism you've not seen yet. Basically, cheer up. This is a bit of fun. Don't turn it into another moanfest. If you disapprove of RTR, just look elsewhere and let everyone else indulge in some pleasant, fanciful dreaming. 2 9 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted December 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 25, 2020 8 minutes ago, Phil Parker said: I'm pretty sure Judith Edge stills sells Sentinel kits even after the Hornby model arrived, something that surprised me. The 48ds doesn't need a match wagon if your track is OK. And without it, it runs better than my kit built version. Hunslet from Rapido? You are criticising a mechanism you've not seen yet. Basically, cheer up. This is a bit of fun. Don't turn it into another moanfest. If you disapprove of RTR, just look elsewhere and let everyone else indulge in some pleasant, fanciful dreaming. Phil The two locos i mention stick out like a sore thumb.. they are not quirky at all.. as it happens I have voted for a quirky loco..the aveling and porter.. now how do you make that work? Baz 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenman Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Barry O said: ... Clayton.. Heljan.. ran like a dog ... That’s true of the first run, but subsequent runs have been fine (there have been more than 20 variants over the years). The fact that years later the Heljan is still being re-issued suggests there’s a decent market for it, and I don’t believe the vast majority of those sales will have been cannibalised from what would otherwise be JE sales. Heljan is now releasing an 0 gauge model Clayton: is that ok because JLTRT went bust and JE don’t produce a kit, or bad because it stops a kit manufacturer making one? There’s room for everyone. Paul 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted December 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2020 43 minutes ago, Barry O said: have voted for a quirky loco..the aveling and porter.. now how do you make that work? In a similar way to the latest Rocket model? Even tiny 4mm industrials are similar in space to small N gauge shunters and I’ve got mech and Dcc in there with an 8mm square chip from Zimo. Now something quirky like Cyclopede would be entertaining to motorise in 4mm. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMacdermott Posted December 25, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2020 9 hours ago, MPR said: What about a British prototype fireless steam locomotive for the poll next year? Definitely quirky, maybe even a contender for a conventional wish-list? Hello MPR I have put 'a Fireless Loco' on the 2021 Agenda for you. When we were running 'the old main Poll', we had an Industrial category up to 2018. We had to list items 'generically' as there wasn't room for specifics. We listed Industrial 0-4-0T - Fireless and this finished in The Top 50. Brian (on behalf of The Quirky Poll Team) 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Can I just mark myself down as being impressed at photos and even video being found for some of those more obscure items-the poll team NEVER fail to deliver. 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutyDruid Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Sorry, the bubblecar thing has been done already... I do have an MP4 of it running round on a part of Watt Estate but apparently MP4 is not an acceptable file type. Origin: My car found when we cleared my parents loft, donated to the Watt Estate crew (Club 09 Layout - That's 0 scale on 9mm gauge track) who motorised and repainted it. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 How about one of these ? Looks Norfolk and Good to me !!!!!! Happy Christmas Brit15 5 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTSK Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Another industrial suggestion. The BTH shunting locos at Fords Dagenham, three were built in 1931 and one is preserved on the Kent & East Sussex Railway. They worked across the main line and were built to LMSR loading gauge and when built gave demonstrations on the Dagenham to Purfleet line. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Just to avoid any possible chance of confusion : the Lancing works shunter was DS499 and the petrol inspection shed was 49S .......... Im not sure whether they were contemporary but they'd both have been S suffix in SR days & DS prefix in BR day if they were ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Islesy Posted December 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 25, 2020 4 hours ago, Barry O said: do the manufacturers do any research of their own? Wishlisting, in any form, is not research. Research is the long hours spent in archives, grinding through manufacturer’s drawings trying to piece together build histories and common components. It’s the hours spent trawling through photographic collections (online and offline), looking for livery variations and it’s the days spent putting together a business case for any particular subject. It’s about talking to those folk who worked with the subject and the time spent tracking those people down and it’s about establishing whether there are any licensing implications that might erode any profit margin. And that’s before trying to work out the complexities of engineering that is required to deliver a model at a reasonable cost... 2 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMacdermott Posted December 25, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2020 48 minutes ago, FTSK said: Another industrial suggestion. The BTH shunting locos at Fords Dagenham, three were built in 1931 and one is preserved on the Kent & East Sussex Railway. They worked across the main line and were built to LMSR loading gauge and when built gave demonstrations on the Dagenham to Purfleet line. Hello FTSK Those locos were on our draft list but didn't make it to the final. I'll make sure they are back on the 2021 Agenda for you. Brian (on behalf of The Quirky Poll Team) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 5 hours ago, PaulRhB said: In a similar way to the latest Rocket model? ........ The Aveling has one extra complication that Rocket doesn't have - you'd HAVE to make the flywheel spin ! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted December 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 25, 2020 If you haven't room for a decent Wuppertal monorail line in your front room you can always run it on Microsoft Train Simulator and have the whole line to run on. I don't think there is anything on the official list I would buy, as modelling a South Wales valley is a bit limiting, though plenty of company locos ended up in industrial use. I would buy a 4mm Peckett of suitable type such as the X class (not the Hornby 0-4-0ST currently available) as they were quite common. Invertrain (no connection) already do an X in 7 mm. Jonathan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les1952 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Of that list I'd go for Locomotion and Bellerophon. Les 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denbridge Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 I wonder if Hornby already have Locomotion in their future plans. They do sometimes drop clues and there was a model of No.1 in the background of an interview with Simon Khoeler during a piece in the Engine Shed blog. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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