RMweb Premium romley midland Posted November 21, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2011 Personally I hope the J39 employs the ecellent tender-drive the B1 currently uses. Roy Speaking to Colin back in September at TINGS, he implied that every new loco would be assessed individually as to the best method of motorisation, and he said he expected the J39 to use the B1 tender drive as it is a simple 0-6-0 so no valve gear to lock up. Cheers Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy L S Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Speaking to Colin back in September at TINGS, he implied that every new loco would be assessed individually as to the best method of motorisation, and he said he expected the J39 to use the B1 tender drive as it is a simple 0-6-0 so no valve gear to lock up. Cheers Richard Hi Richard There has been such a lot of hype about the loco-drive models that I had forgotten that, but now you mention it, I do recall that from a conversation I had with him too. A tender driven J39 will be fine by me. I also recall Colin Allbright posing the question to the effect that if I had spent a lot of money on a 4 axle LNER tender-drive wouldn't it make sense to recoup the investment over more than one model? Cleverly worded - not saying they were, but it stuck with me. As an aside, I have heard about some having valve gear lockups, but not one of my Farish tender drive locos has suffered this. I do wonder if the problem is really that widespread, certainly none of my fellow club members have reported any problems. I do take great care handling my locos, ensuring do not pick them up by the valve-gear etc and always keep/transport them in their original boxes and packaging, but that's all,I do.... Roy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frobisher Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I also recall Colin Allbright posing the question to the effect that if I had spent a lot of money on a 4 axle LNER tender-drive wouldn't it make sense to recoup the investment over more than one model? Cleverly worded - not saying they were, but it stuck with me. I'd say it would be a safe assumption to expect an A2 in the next year or so. If there were plans for a new A3 and/or A4 they might be undergoing something of a rethink unless they were past the point of no return The P2 had an 8 wheel tender though didn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adam1701D Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 Great news about the buses. Is anyone else finding the combination of the art-deco station building and 4-CEP very tempting? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Great news about the buses. Is anyone else finding the combination of the art-deco station building and 4-CEP very tempting? Excepting that it's a London Transport station (though the signal box is Southern). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJW Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Nobody seems to have noticed the new n gauge scenecraft items. You might also want to check out the scenecraft page on the Bachmann website where they have made many new announcements for n: Including: All the farm buildings previously in OO The village and cottages on show at Warley The Single Road Modern Servicing Shed All the Great Central Railway buildings (Can't wait for these now!) http://www.Bachmann.co.uk/prod1.php?prod_selected=scraftn&prod=1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adam1701D Posted November 25, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2011 Some lovely building there. Particularly like the single road shed, based on the one at Peterborough. Prices are a little eye-watering, though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyewipe Jct Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Nobody seems to have noticed the new n gauge scenecraft items. You might also want to check out the scenecraft page on the Bachmann website where they have made many new announcements for n: Including: All the Great Central Railway buildings (Can't wait for these now!) http://www.Bachmann....=scraftn&prod=1 Oh, dear - with these & all the locos recently released (or planned to be), a layout based on the GC main line to London really is viable, isn't it...? Must resist, must resist... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave777 Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 The new buildings are good, and I just hope they don't get carried away, release loads of different ones, flood the market and then decide it's not worth it... which is pretty much what happened with the Lyddle End range Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted November 26, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 26, 2011 The new buildings are certainly very pretty but they mostly strike me as suffering from shrinkage, something that most premade items of this type seem to exhibit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 Oh, dear - with these & all the locos recently released (or planned to be), a layout based on the GC main line to London really is viable, isn't it...? Must resist, must resist... A 9F on several dozen coal wagons running through the scenery would be pretty impressive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJW Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 The scenecraft n page has been updated again, including photos of some of the items. A lot are just the OO versions for the time being (so we'll have to wait to see how the Great Central buildings look), but some are in fact the n ones, these are: Blue Anchor Signal Box Garage Georgian Townhouse Derelict Signal Box Ash Plant Thatched cottage and Single Road Servicing Shed, which looks pretty stunning if you ask me. http://www.Bachmann.co.uk/prod1.php?prod_selected=scraftn&prod=1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJW Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 Oh, whilst talking about updates to the Bachmann website, I forgot to mention there are now images of all the painted samples of the new MK1's (in all liveries): RMB BCK BG GUV But no image what-so-ever for the FO, yet they are due the same time as the BCK. Were these on show at Warley? http://www.Bachmann.co.uk/prod1.php?prod_selected=farish&prod=3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portpatrick Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 As far as i remember it was announced as far back as 2007! Ollie I have been away all week so am catching up. Yes, it may even have been late 2006. My recollection is that it was shortly after Dapol launched the tank version and that the Farish announcement resulted in Dapol pulling back from their plans for the tender loco. Shame; we might have had it by now. Thankfully we seem to have moved on from announcements being made so far before a realistic launch date. I too will hope for and indeed expect as high quality model, in all respects, given the (6 year?) timescale. And if Dapol can produce tiny locos such as Terriers, 14XX then it cannot be that difficult to produce the Mickey Mouse. My 2 Minitrix have both bitten the dust, so I am ready for it. Meanewhile I have had no problems with thosse releases I have purchased; my 101 is excellent and the 73XXX looks most promising. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 Oh, whilst talking about updates to the Bachmann website, I forgot to mention there are now images of all the painted samples of the new MK1's (in all liveries): RMB BCK BG GUV But no image what-so-ever for the FO, yet they are due the same time as the BCK. Were these on show at Warley? http://www.Bachmann....d=farish&prod=3 Pity two of the network rail liveried coaches are old style printed coaches - but still the same price as the blue riband versions. Perhaps the FOs are not on the site because they on released the last batch of the current printed detail FOs in the summer and have stock to clear before releasing the new ones. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted November 26, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 26, 2011 Hi I asked about the NR coaches and was advised that due to the grills and altered windows the printed option was the only viable option. Colour to be improved with double hit printing. looking good in concept and we have all with weathering used the flush sides for years so not a problem. Robert shrives Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 Hi I asked about the NR coaches and was advised that due to the grills and altered windows the printed option was the only viable option. Colour to be improved with double hit printing. looking good in concept and we have all with weathering used the flush sides for years so not a problem. Snag is that the ones on display at Warley, and also in the pics on their website, show old style Mk1 coaches with the old style chunky generic underframe and ends and old non NEM bogies, yet they are marked up as 'blue riband' quality. Let's hope they upgrade those detail areas at least to the current new standards even if they need to print the window and grille arrangements on the body sides. G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robgregson1 Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Just back from the Wigan exhibition. There was a painted Desiro 350 on the Farish display stand. Looked pretty impressive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 That does look good. But when they supply shorter couplings in the box, why don't they illustrate the benefit by fitting them to the display models? I had to look twice to confirm that one was actually coupled at all! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Given, like most EMUs, they don't have buffers, it surely must be possible to have a 'floating' gangway (one-piece between each coach) so the gap is closed properly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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