RMweb Gold McC Posted December 26, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2022 5 minutes ago, rob D2 said: are you saying cos irish rail had em , there's a larger market ? That's gotta be a fraction of a fraction . I think he's saying that Irish Rail and Northern Irish rail ran Mark 2b and 2c, hence the range of both spanning both our brands, both helping the volumes / economies of scale? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave55uk Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 On 24/12/2022 at 18:44, wombatofludham said: I don't have an Accurascale Deltic but my Realtrack 156 absolutely cruises round my less than perfect track which has been laid and relaid more times than a nocturnal leisure agent in Portsmouth when the Fleet is in port. I used to have problems more with Heljan 86s until I cottoned on it was the fixed details on the buffer beam interfering with the couplings on some of the tighter curves. Some of my tracklaying in the fiddle yard is a real acid test of how twitchy a train is to bad track. Some of the sidings have perfect scale "cyclic top"! Now that's very interesting. I'll have to have a closer look and see if there's anything fouling the bogies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frobisher Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 1 hour ago, McC said: I think he's saying that Irish Rail and Northern Irish rail ran Mark 2b and 2c, hence the range of both spanning both our brands, both helping the volumes / economies of scale? And some nice 2Ds including the special Irish variants would be very complimentary ;) 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted December 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2022 21 hours ago, XChris said: Or Mark 2e’s nothing against the Hornby ones but to mix in with the Bachmann ones they stand out like a sore thumb in terms of CDL lights and internal lighting… Mixing any looks odd. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted December 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2022 OT - I always find it slightly amazing that our manufacturers call the models 'finescale' representations of the prototypes, but when different brands are put alongside each other, the differences are sometimes quite considerable. It makes me wonder about the ability to accurately represent a given prototype, even allowing for some degree of need for design and manufacturing interpretation. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium reddragon Posted December 28, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2022 I need a rake of WR Mk 2def coaches, nobody does them. Even ER & MR ones are rare. If I need them so do many others! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium reddragon Posted December 28, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2022 On 25/12/2022 at 12:39, Iskra said: A bit of an off the wall suggestion, but could someone do a DCC sound coach/brake van that you could place in a consist to provide coach/wagon sounds. It’s a bit odd having a DCC sound loco but then coaches/wagons just following silently behind. DCC sound buffet car anyone? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold markjj Posted December 30, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2022 Continuing on with the hopper theme Accurascale how about doing a BR Anhydrite hopper in both 0 and 00. There must be a demand for it as there are a good few S&C layouts about. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Banger Blue Posted December 30, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2022 I don’t know if they’ve been done before (at least not in recent times) but how about some ‘chemical tanks’? Something along the lines of the Associated Octel, Ethylene Dibromide and Liquid Chlorine tanks used between Amlwch & Ellesmere Port (photos from Flickr): Ideal for those North Wales layouts (as is the Class 40 should AS decide to do one 😉 😉 ). 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinsley-toton Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 13 minutes ago, Banger Blue said: I don’t know if they’ve been done before (at least not in recent times) but how about some ‘chemical tanks’? Something along the lines of the Associated Octel, Ethylene Dibromide and Liquid Chlorine tanks used between Amlwch & Ellesmere Port (photos from Flickr): A 40 and the Amlwch tanks, sounds perfect to me 👍 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Watto1990 Posted December 30, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2022 Well, thanks to Accurascale’s 2022 in review email we know there’s a special announcement at Model Rail Scotland at the end of February… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Eddie the dog Posted December 31, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 31, 2022 Can we have a rake of Drax Biomas wagons or do Hornby have exclusive rights ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted December 31, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 31, 2022 29 minutes ago, Eddie the dog said: Can we have a rake of Drax Biomas wagons or do Hornby have exclusive rights ? TBH, if one producer has already released something you want that nobody else has announced, there's only one sensible course of action. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomScrut Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Eddie the dog said: Can we have a rake of Drax Biomas wagons or do Hornby have exclusive rights ? Not sure what your issue with the Hornby one is at £25 a pop! I see @McC has liked your post, and he will obviously know a lot more on this than me, but if I recall correctly when the Revolution/Rails one came about and we all piled in asking about OO it wasn't an option. I can't remember what exactly was said but I think it was a case of not allowed than not willing. Drax would have to approve anything given it's their artwork on the wagons, and they commissioned the Hornby tooling as far as I am aware. Whether Hornby now owns the tooling (hence why they are making more) I don't know. Edited December 31, 2022 by TomScrut 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Eddie the dog Posted January 1, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2023 Happy New Year. These go for about £60.00 each on eBay and IMHO are not worth half that ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomScrut Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 4 hours ago, Eddie the dog said: Happy New Year. These go for about £60.00 each on eBay and IMHO are not worth half that ! Well they are £25 each at the moment, assuming you can find a dealer who has them, unless you haven't been paying attention? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium andythenorth Posted January 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 2, 2023 (edited) 19 hours ago, TomScrut said: Well they are £25 each at the moment, assuming you can find a dealer who has them, unless you haven't been paying attention? Off-topic for this thread, but https://anticsonline.uk/Product/Hornby-R60176-Drax-Biomass-Wagon-Pack-A-Wagons-83700698160-4--83700698070-5-OO_R60176_N108532654 (Assuming these are twin packs for £50 the pair, but not 100% sure) 🙃 Not much stock elsewhere on a quick Google search. Just did this out of curiosity 🙂 Edited January 2, 2023 by andythenorth Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomScrut Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 1 hour ago, andythenorth said: Off-topic for this thread Probably the ones I cancelled with them! Yes they are twin packs assuming they are playing nicely (which I expect they are) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium E100 Posted January 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 2, 2023 On 30/12/2022 at 19:12, Watto1990 said: Well, thanks to Accurascale’s 2022 in review email we know there’s a special announcement at Model Rail Scotland at the end of February… Hopefully something suitably Scottish! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bri.dolan Posted January 2, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2023 Mabe a AC EMU of some kind one from the 70’s to go with the AC electrics that are available regards Brian 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRC Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 A 1980’s Inverness, Motherwell or Eastfield class 37 please. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Downer Posted January 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 2, 2023 Having deliberately missed out on the Locomotion D6700 - having it delivered to France made it way too expensive - I’m hoping you’ll do another of the earliest 37s in plain green at some point. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ncarter2 Posted January 2, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 2, 2023 7 hours ago, andythenorth said: Off-topic for this thread, but https://anticsonline.uk/Product/Hornby-R60176-Drax-Biomass-Wagon-Pack-A-Wagons-83700698160-4--83700698070-5-OO_R60176_N108532654 (Assuming these are twin packs for £50 the pair, but not 100% sure) 🙃 Not much stock elsewhere on a quick Google search. Just did this out of curiosity 🙂 Managed to bag both sets earlier today, the shop had 4 sets of each, now all gone. There seems to be the odd set here and there. But slim pickings now. If like to get some of the originals, but at the prices they are being listed for, not for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium E100 Posted January 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2023 So quite a left field idea for Accurascale and may not even be best placed in this thread. This only applies after another couple of stellar years of growth and I do need to emphasise that. One of the biggest costs in modern model railways are sound decoders, usually adding a good £100 to the cost of models in the UK at least, which is basically a third of the cost of a modern sound loco. From my perspective seems very high for what is not a particularly complicated piece of electronics and yet is produced in reasonably high numbers, since they are somewhat independent of the model. I think they should look to make their own sound decoders or at least explore it. I believe that with the ingenuity they have shown alongside a willingness to do custom sound projects and control boards such as that found in the class 92 pantographs, adding some additional engineers capable of designing microchips and getting a factory on board is not totally out of the question a few years from now, assuming things continue to go as well as they are. I don't doubt this is a huge ask but if it could be done in a way that takes say 20% off the cost of the decoder (and that could be retained by them or passed on to customers) this would be very worthwhile in the long run due to the monopoly held by Zimo and ESU. As I say a very left field move and not one to put a TT:120 sized risk against right now but also not totally out of the question when the coffers are a bit more full. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonM Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 @accurascale - a few livery options available... 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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