'Genesis' 4 & 6 wheel coaches in OO Gauge - New Announcement

[gwrrob]

2 hours ago, rprodgers said:

I have just been charged for  H4-46Pack-101 Pack of 4 coaches (4BT, 4T, 6C123, 6BT) in GWR chocolate and cream 

 

Yes, it appears all GWR orders are being processed and I look forward to receiving mine in time for the weekend.

[SteamingWales]

Just been billed for my Departmental version. Exciting times indeed 😁😁

[longchap]

The years of waiting is over, as mine will be here in 3 to 5 days.

 

Just got to finish wiring the layout and build the control panel. Hmm, 5 days may be pushing it a bit then, but many happy ones ahead!

[melmerby]

My  H4-46Pack-101 Pack of 4 coaches have now disappeared from my pre-orders and the bank shows the money has been taken.

Must be on the way.🙂

 

EDIT

but haven't been despatched yet

Edited September 14, 2022 by melmerby

[RJS1977]

I've had the email saying my 6-wheel full brake is on its way :-)

 

[Jon Harbour]

Just checked my trunk and the4 coach set and a 4BT and 6FB in GWR livery are there! Woo-hoo! Now I need to ship some things! I've been waiting to make it worthwhile shipping costs wise.

[GWR-fan]

Every GWR and departmental coach pre-ordered went straight to my trunk (even a GWR six-wheel full brake only pre-ordered a couple of days ago before the cutoff deadline).  Items processed and now awaiting dispatch.  The Southern coaches will go to my trunk in November.

[Cor-onGRT4]

Yesterday evening at 21.12 UK time got an email all my 9 GWR coaches were processed and put in my trunk, now awaiting for the SR 6 wheel tool van is processed.

Hopefully the Accurascale Chaldron wagons next week and than order to ship.

Now awaiting for the next batches till March 

[DanInHisDen]

I guess im not the only one who is annoyed about not being able to have a full rake after all 3rd class coaches have been sold out on pre order.

[phil-b259]

2 minutes ago, DanInHisDen said:

I guess im not the only one who is annoyed about not being able to have a full rake after all 3rd class coaches have been sold out on pre order.

 

Thats the risk you take if you wait.

 

Given how long it is since the product was first announced - and indeed since things like livery designs were shared with potential customers, its hardly a surprise that  large numbers have sold out on pre-order.

 

Of course it could be said that  the way model manufacturers tend to produce identical quantities rather than reflect the real world distribution of 1sts, composites and brake designs (the former tending to overwhelmingly be the greatest in vehicle numbers on the real railway) doesn't help.

[gwrrob]

Even the packaging for these looks mouth watering and quality.

 

[stewartingram]

My departmental black 6w coach resides in my trunk. It will sit there until the trunk gets another item or two. Meanwhile, anybody got a pic of it?

[MarkSG]

My departmental staff riding coach has disappearted from my pre-orders and appeared in my trunk. I'm dithering a bit whether to leave it there, or get it shipped now, as I don't have anything else on order that's likely to be ready in the next couple of months.  I think I'll wait a bit and see if anything I fancy crops up in the bargain bucket or pre-owned that I can usefully combine shipping on.

[melmerby]

On 14/09/2022 at 22:48, melmerby said:

My  H4-46Pack-101 Pack of 4 coaches have now disappeared from my pre-orders and the bank shows the money has been taken.

Must be on the way.🙂

 

EDIT

but haven't been despatched yet

 

Item now picked with a date created of 01/01/0001!🙂

[Bucoops]

A model shop I "follow" on facebook has just listed a load of good used Hornby ones - someone clearing their temp ones now the Hattons ones are out?

Edited September 16, 2022 by Bucoops

[Michael Hodgson]

My first vehicle in the Genesis range arrived this morning - an (unlit) BR Staff Riding Van.   Only one departmental van as I wanted to see what this range looked like before committing to rakes of coaches. 

 

Thoughts?  Pleasing little vehicle, and it has the finely moulded luggage nets in the passenger part of the van - that struck me as a bit improbable on an old carriage relegated onto occasional use on a breakdown train.  You can hardly see the nets with the roof on anyway, and I wondered whether there would even have been seating left in the middle compartment whose windows are blanked out.  Sensible business decision not to do a different seat moulding just for this livery though. 

 

I like the way the roof clips on. 

 

The optional (fit it yoursef) additional footboard is a good idea - I think it's appropriate to fit it to this van, as climbing in and out at ground level is what this van is all about, whereas I wouldn't bother for some other liveries.  Surprised it's not mentioned in the instruction leaflet for idiots though.

 

The ends are the same colour as the body - would black have been more likely?  Without digging into books or photos, I've no idea.  All over red is certainly plausible, and as it's a generic anyway, you'd probably find both if you did do research.  So do what you want is justified here.

 

I like the way the centre axle slides, although in an ideal world I would have preferred a Cleminson.  The option to remove that axles altogether and convert it to a four-wheeler is a good idea, but I don't see me downgrading any van from six to four.

 

Lighting?  I had decided at the outset  that the additional £6 wasn't worth paying, still less the idea of adding a DCC decoder to control it - you don't see carriage lights in daytime and I don't run in the dark.  But it's a fair price for that optional extra if you wanted it.

 

Accuracy to prototype?  Well most of my life I've had under-scale length representations of Mk 1s, RTR wagons on inappropriate chassis with negligible brake detail - so what's so new about generic coaches?  These are visually much better, and elderly though I am, I don't remember 6-wheelers so have no personal recollection of relevant prototypes anyway.

 

Overall - yes, I am impressed so I will go on to order some of the other liveries in this range, although I seem to have missed out on the LMS ones I would have liked.  I would have thought the big four are the liveries most likely to warrant a second run in due course.  Normally I would include BR in that, but perhaps not for 4- and 6-wheelers.

[Metr0Land]

Black departmental van delivered here at lunchtime.  Delightful model.  I haven't changed the footboards, everything is as-unboxed.  My track is Peco code 100 and she runs perfectly well through pointwork.  Admittedly most of my points are medium and large radius, but I do have one crossover where both points are small radius and no problems.

 

[Dunsignalling]

That's very nice. I wasn't aware of that version or would have had one! 

 

I received advice this morning that my two red departmental 6-wheelers have landed in my trunk.

 

John

[gwrrob]

The 6 wheel GWR full brake in all its magnificence.

 

[Compound2632]

1 minute ago, gwrrob said:

The 6 wheel GWR full brake in all its magnificence.

 

 

That is rather splendid - makes me feel all my interference (together with that of others) all those years ago was worth-while!

[Johan DC]

I can't wait for the LNER and GNR ones. 

On a totally unrelated matter, I found out I have a couple of 4- and 6-wheelers to use for weathering practice. 😇

[MarkSG]

16 hours ago, melmerby said:

 

Item now picked with a date created of 01/01/0001!🙂

 

Sounds like a y0k problem 😀

[melmerby]

2 minutes ago, MarkSG said:

 

Sounds like a y0k problem 😀

It is Genesis you know.........😉

[gwrrob]

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

 

That is rather splendid - makes me feel all my interference (together with that of others) all those years ago was worth-while!

 

The underframe isn't bad either.

 

[RJS1977]

On 14/09/2022 at 23:00, RJS1977 said:

I've had the email saying my 6-wheel full brake is on its way :-)

 

 

Of course, it was delivered when I was on a two-day work trip, so I got a "Sorry you were out" card instead!