Andy Y Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Now available on Hornby's site - http://www.Hornby.com/2012range Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted January 3, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2012 shame the links don't work on the Hornby website though ..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Just waiting for all the subsections to show up. Bittern looks like a dead cert for me, been wanting a double tendered loco for a while. edit: I quite like the club loco this year, a sub is in order I think. I might wait till the local shop has the physical catalogue this time though, as Hornby didn't post mine for 2 months last year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Been waiting for this, suspemse has been killing me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike Bellamy Posted January 3, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2012 Links on that page (except Humbrol) don't seem to be working yet - must be an embargo on any news Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryHN Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I keep trying to get on and its saying try later!!!! Hornby have messed up again!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gribble Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 They have mucked up the links. Try inserting 2012range in each link, ie... http://www.Hornby.com/2012range/sets and it should work. Seems like the Hornby admins havent had their coffee this morning *gribble* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Well... Already got NRM Black Scotsman... Duchess of Hamilton = Yes please! Evening Star doesn't look any different to the Railroad version... Railroad Scotsman looks slightly odd to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Emily Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Some interesting new steam locos. Those 2-8-0 tanks look nice, and the O1 will be interesting. I wasn't bowled over by the diesel offerings, and the website seems to be creaking too much now under the weight of traffic to let me see the wagons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium spamcan61 Posted January 3, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2012 Evening Star doesn't look any different to the Railroad version... Presumably it's just the Railroad one in a fancy box. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Click on the images in my OP to be taken to the relevant sub-section. The highlights are well presented here - https://www.model-railways-live.co.uk/Features/Special_Feature_-_Hornby_2012_New_Releases_-_See_them_here_first/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pint of Adnams Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 The items that I most wanted to check on - the Thompson non-vestibuled carriages - were the only ones in the carriage section that used real photographs rather than CAD side profiles. These are the ones with the scope for most variations, and hence opportunities for mistakes, so it's good to know that once again Mike Trice is acting as adviser to Hornby. If the demand is there, I expect that The LNER Society will produce the same type of information sheets as were done last year for the Gresley non-vestibuled carriages and BGP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted January 3, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2012 Ohh! an O1, now there's a surprise and a 72xx - already saving ... although I wouldn't mind building the 72xx Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium spamcan61 Posted January 3, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2012 Yes a very creaky website, will wait until things calm down a bit. As Andy points out above, BRM have a good summary, Pat has a more detailed listing ove ron MREmag http://www.mremag.com/ Both are refreshingly free from the ###### of marketing puff and Photoshoppery that would presumably greet me on the Hornby site if I could actually access it. ####### = o r g y Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mod4 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Please keep this topic to discussion about the releases rather than cheap shots, now deleted, at their website performance etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torn-on-the-platform Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Can anyone explain to me why one of the Maunsell PP coaches is available separately as an 'unmodified' version (bust still with the odd coupling on one end) but not the other? Its great to see this addition however! As it is with the luggage van. Other than the aforementioned and the GWR tanks, not that much has struck me yet. I had heard the B sets and Autocoach would be available again and was hoping that they would be new tooling, but then, I'm not surprised that they aren't. With so much due out from Bachmann already this year I'm quite happy with the Hornby announcement. I will finally be able to get hold of 4472 in its 'current' form. Though I seem to be in the minority of people who prefer it as such! The Thompsons look interesting, but if I managed the self restraint not to buy a Gresley set, then I very much doubt that the Thompsons will get me either... I can't see the logic behind this release but I'm not complaining! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham_Muz Posted January 3, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2012 Can anyone explain to me why one of the Maunsell PP coaches is available separately as an 'unmodified' version (bust still with the odd coupling on one end) but not the other? Its great to see this addition however! As it is with the luggage van. Tom, the image of the Diagram 2005 Third/ Second Open (don't get me started on their use of the term "unconverted") shows a tension lock at one end and their Roco close coupling at the other, both types of couplings tend to be proivided by Hornby with all their later releases. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Doesn't seem to be as much 'new' stuff as last year. Also they state a late BR Tornado with an early crest :~ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold griffgriff Posted January 3, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2012 Ok then... what on earth are Hornby still doing with the Airfix 21 ton hoppers? They have a nice new chassis but they persist with the old. Ther only interesting point I can see is that have found a new manufacturer, now I hope they can make some quality models that might have the looks, performance and price that we expect in the 21stC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted January 3, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2012 I can't get the Hornby pages to load either, probably server 'overload'. Using the MREmag page, I'm glad the Maunsell PP set is going to be available without a loco as well. I'd feared Hornby might try to use a train pack only to push out more M7s. Admittedly the PP set would always need a locomotive, but I'd rather be able to make my choice on that than have it foistered on me. Glad to see the Bogie Van B too. As I've seen a picture of a Thompson Suburban on an S&DJR train, even they come into scope EDIT: Link to Flickr picture of Thompson Suburban apparently on an S&DJR train: link Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torn-on-the-platform Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Thanks Graham, Just for the record, my name is actually Chris! Its just my username is TORN on the platform (the Jack Penate song). Perhaps I should change my signature to reflect this, as you're not the first to reply to me as Tom. So are the second/thirds just as they were in normal non-PP service? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
70022Tornado Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 A 42XX and a 72XX = YES THERE IS A GOD ! 70022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 One thing troubling me about the new Bittern model. With it being a new version of the A4 tender (i.e. slim) and the water carrier based on the old tool (fat), will this not look a bit odd? Doesn't the real water carrier match the width of the loco's tender? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Andy W Posted January 3, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2012 I know that Thompson non-corridor stock tended to stray off ex-LNER routes far more than the Gresley equivalents. Didn't one example appear on the Hemyock branch at some time? So are the actual prototypes chosen by Hornby types that would be useful to BR steam era modellers generally (presumably excluding the Southern) or were they normally confined to specific routes/areas? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dilbert Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I know that the Scots are a hardy bunch, but didn't realise that they poured oil on their conrflakes for breakfast... The inclusion of a 6 wheel milk tanker branded 'The Oakbank Oil Co Ltd' is weird (could there really be a prototype for this model?) - may be the glass lining of the prototype tank helped protect the contents in transit ?... dilbert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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