metropolitan cammell Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 Website saying it's currently in stock: https://www.dccsupplies.com/item-p-112599/reservation-for-class-121-oo-gauge-chiltern-green-no-121034-dcc-ready.htm In stock for preordering due third quarter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 In stock for preordering due third quarter. In stock for preordering? No blame attached to metropolitan cammell for correct interpretation but DCC Supplies needs to explain something to its computer! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Just pre-ordered my Blue 121 on the back of the Hornby Mag review, just hoping the livery application is spot on as shape wise etc the Dapol model looks spot on... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted June 12, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 12, 2017 A 121 is a temptation for Cwmdimbath, but has to be a low priority; by the time I get round to it, they'll probably be out of production again. But I am considering the possibility of building a reserve of stcck for mid 60s operation, with the branch being closed to passengers by Beeching but still used for occasional excursions. D68xx, D95xx, 08, 116, and 121, maybe even a Hymek on the Remploy parcels. Steady on, lad, you haven't got all the steam engines you want yet! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Roy Langridge Posted June 12, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 12, 2017 A 121 is a temptation for Cwmdimbath, but has to be a low priority; by the time I get round to it, they'll probably be out of production again. But I am considering the possibility of building a reserve of stcck for mid 60s operation, with the branch being closed to passengers by Beeching but still used for occasional excursions. D68xx, D95xx, 08, 116, and 121, maybe even a Hymek on the Remploy parcels. Steady on, lad, you haven't got all the steam engines you want yet! Just go for it ;-) At the end of the day we are all collectors even if we are also modellers. I have enough stock for half a dozen more layouts sitting around, and keep buying more. At my current rate it will take me two more years to finish the two layouts (one for my boys) before I even start on another. Route learner bubble for me I think. Roy 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TangerineWizards Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Sorry if I've missed this already but did the Kernow limited editions ever get picked up by anybody after they were cancelled? I believe they were proposing Network Rail yellow examples in particular. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clearwater Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Hi A query - does anyone recall which 122s ran on the Stourbridge Town branch in the mid/late 80s? My memory says 55022 but possibly playing me false David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted June 17, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2017 Any single car based at Tyseley would have worked the branch at some time. Originally 122s, 002, which was the one that crashed off the end, 003, 009 and 012 were all pictured there. Of the 121s, 022 certainly got there as did 033 which carried the Midline livery for a short while. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 I presume as the magazines have had their review samples that these are not far away now.. Having never owned a Dapol DMU before please can somebody advise how easy it is to remove the printed numbers and arrows on Dapol stock? I want to renumber mine and from the review photos the arrows look a bit chunky to me but am worried that the paintwork underneath may get damaged. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rembrow Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 According to an update on the Dapol Digest 5 days ago, the 122s are due to arrive at the beginning of July. They also said the 121s are expected about 10 weeks later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Thanks, I expected they would be sooner but more time to save up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 18, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 18, 2017 Pre-production 122 in the display cabinet at Gaugemaster's little show today: 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiebrfan Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Very nice. G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted June 18, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 18, 2017 I hope it's not a trick of the light, but the yellow o N the cab front looks much better than what we had on the Western, Class 22 and Class 73 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 From shots of the RR and B/G ones, the colours are looking good and the model captures the look of the real thing. I can live with the livery errors highlighted so far (RR lettering too low and grey area on B/G one slightly too curved at the corners). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_crisp Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Agreed! Looking good. I'm debating whether the roof needs the ribs smoothing down bit other than glazing and the wipers it really looks the business. I think there'll be a few bubbles at my place Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
valleymodeller Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 I can't wait for these to arrive in the UK. Should be soon I hope. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted June 18, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 18, 2017 Models on displsy at Quorn today. Look really nice. Dapol rep said they should be in the shops in a couple of weeks time. Looking forward to picking one up from Arcadia Models. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slg Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 3 versions on the Rail Express stand at GCR show. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted June 19, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19, 2017 Dapol have shown recently that they are capable of producing beautifully detailed models which capture the look ofthe prototypes extremely well. Looking at pics these railcars follow that path and if they get the colours/livery right and avoid qc niggles I think these will be winners. Pity they can't do a mineral wagon with a correct wheelbase... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted June 19, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19, 2017 Just go for it ;-) At the end of the day we are all collectors even if we are also modellers. I have enough stock for half a dozen more layouts sitting around, and keep buying more. At my current rate it will take me two more years to finish the two layouts (one for my boys) before I even start on another. Route learner bubble for me I think. Roy It'll be a while yet before one in a pre-corporate blue livery, either with whiskers or SYP, turns up in the shops (I just typo-ed ships, but that is not exactly incorrect), so my money is safe for now. I have spent far too much on locos recently and need to ease off, but if the Baccy 4575 appears any time soon... But you have a point; I don't consider myself a collector but this is a lovely looking model that would be nice just to own. I was once guard on one of the route learner 122s for a week teaching trainees the road from Cardiff to Margam, in the summer of '71. The weather was good and we would have a lunch hour at Margam Moors before returning, via the Vale of Glamorgan, and had a baseball league going using a brake stick as the bat and a tin can for the ball, great fun! Think of us if your route learner is a blue one... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 I have not been following this thread but have just been through it from top to tail. Nowhere can I find any indication of the thinking that led to the adoption of the mechanism chosen. I am sure it is more than adequately powered but this is at the cost of the unsightly interior moulding. The photographs accompanying Chris Leigh's admirably thorough review in the August Model Rail make the interior moulding look like a trough of custard with lumps of rhubarb sticking up. If I were a prospective purchaser, which I am not, i would file this under 'missed opportunity'. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted June 28, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 28, 2017 Might be swayed and buy one. Not a great fan of single railcar on the basis they are not proper trains, but I'm thinking I could combine this either with my Lima 117 and make a 4 car train or even substitute the Lima power car with this model. That way at least one end looks like a 116, which looks as if it's a long way off if ever Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Roy Langridge Posted June 28, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2017 Might be swayed and buy one. Not a great fan of single railcar on the basis they are not proper trains, but I'm thinking I could combine this either with my Lima 117 and make a 4 car train or even substitute the Lima power car with this model. That way at least one end looks like a 116, which looks as if it's a long way off if ever You can always hook a few wagons behind it - surely that is a proper train? Which, reference to the comment just before yours, is one of the benefits of the motor drive employed. Roy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted June 28, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2017 (edited) Might be swayed and buy one. Not a great fan of single railcar on the basis they are not proper trains, but I'm thinking I could combine this either with my Lima 117 and make a 4 car train or even substitute the Lima power car with this model. That way at least one end looks like a 116, which looks as if it's a long way off if ever I have a 116 kitbashed/bodged/cobbled from the Lima 117 that I fabricated (built or constructed would be pushing it a bit, and knocked together is more descriptive) back in the 80s. it required a total of 3 centre trailers in order to make a trailer second and a DMS; 2 would have been ok for a correct 117 with a DMS. As well as the cut and shutting, the headcode boxes had to be removed, and, for my particular model, milliput domed cab roofs shaped up freestyle with a plastic box for the destination blind box and a brass tube put through for the top position marker lamp (I did not attempt the 2-character headcode version). It is not a bad model, but because I know where the joins are it will never really cut the mustard for me, though it attracted favourable comment in it's day running on an exhibition layout. One of the trickiest, faffiest, parts of producing it was chopping the seating mouldings about and lining them up with the windows! I think underfloor drive is a good thing to aim for in dmus, even if floor level is compromised a little; my 116 has a brake van full of unsightly motor, which it nothing to do with it's conversion as the Lima 117 is similarly hobbled. Lima's interior is not exactly to Pendon standards either, IMHO, but passes muster once painted and populated with a few passengers. But the mechanism will pull a house down. more powerful than most of my locos, and can be made to run smoothly and slowly with careful driving and meticulous cleaning; if has the advantage of sounding a little bit like a dmu. Though you really need DCC sound with rattling windows for one left idling in a bay... The floor level is too high in Bachmann's Hawksworth auto trailer as well, in this case to accommodate wiring for lighting which is not provided! Edited June 28, 2017 by The Johnster Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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