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[Dunsignalling]

25 minutes ago, wombatofludham said:

I set up my layout in the shed with polychromatic adjustable floodlighting (designed for outdoor decorative use) so I could set the level of illumination and light colour, allowing me to do dawn to dusk simulation.  You would be surprised how much carriage interior lighting shows up in these situations whilst allowing you to see enough to avoid any trip hazards.  This has convinced me of the added value of interior lighting to the point where I am slowly retrofitting magnetic-reed switch, battery operated lighting to the rest of the fleet.  Sadly, the one set of coaches which is the most difficult to fit the lighting to is the Bachmann Mk1 stock which is extremely difficult to gain access to compared to other similar stock.  I also paint the interiors where possible, and add some people, which really stand out in the artificial low light conditions.  Now that Rapido are supplying model buses with interior lights and with the availability of cheap LED street lights from our Chinese overlords, the new layouts I will be building in the garage of my new house will also feature adjustable, polychromatic LED lighting as it really is worth the effort.  If you add in a bluetooth speaker with ambient environmental noise, it really makes the layout more immersive - and helps justify the fact more companies are adding interior lights to carriages.

 

Your requirements and mine are clearly half a planet apart. 🙂

 

Bachmann Mk.1s aren't that hard to get into. I've had to open up a few to reattach dislodged glazing. 

Edited May 13, 2023 by Dunsignalling

[Michael Hodgson]

On 12/05/2023 at 14:25, 96701 said:

How about some On Track Plant (OTP)?

 

Plasser Tampers 07-16, 07-32 or 08; Ballast Cleaner RM74; Ballast Regulator USP 5000C; Clarke Chapman 12t GPC, 75t Telescopic Jib Breakdown Crane.

 

I'm giving my age away now.

 

Any tamper should be self propelled, the others can be hauled in train formation.

I would definitely go for any or all of those.  Or a stone blower, or come right up to date with the Robel Mobile Maitenance Train.

I am still disapointed that Hattons dropped their planned GPC crane (sadly they thought it wouldn't generate enough sales)

At the other end of the scale, how about a Permaclipper or a cute little Matisa Neptune?

[rob D2]

1 hour ago, Michael Hodgson said:

I would definitely go for any or all of those.  Or a stone blower, or come right up to date with the Robel Mobile Maitenance Train.

I am still disapointed that Hattons dropped their planned GPC crane (sadly they thought it wouldn't generate enough sales)

At the other end of the scale, how about a Permaclipper or a cute little Matisa Neptune?

Technically , they said there weren't enough expressions of interest . No one knew that's what they were after - i didn't realise it was dependant on that 

[BR Blue]

4 hours ago, rob D2 said:

Technically , they said there weren't enough expressions of interest . No one knew that's what they were after - i didn't realise it was dependant on that 

Exactly. They never stated beforehand that expressions of interest or pre-orders were needed. They never did it with anything else before or since.

[Michael Hodgson]

9 hours ago, BR Blue said:

Exactly. They never stated beforehand that expressions of interest or pre-orders were needed. They never did it with anything else before or since.

I suspect the real reason they dropped it was to decote more time and effort into their Genesis range which has proved a lot more populat than perhaps they had anticipated, whereas this particular item was a little more specialist with relatively limited demand.  Its complexity might also have been a greater issue for production than at frist realised.  So I can understand the decision, that doesn't mean it would not have another success - though the sales quantities involved should have been less promising than the generic coaching stock - which still has plenty to run.

[SouthernBlue80s]

Some of these

 

...and track machines.

[Wickham Green too]

Or ....

 

 

..... a great shame two manufacturers have chosen to produce the same British ferry van.

[Covkid]

19 hours ago, SouthernBlue80s said:

Some of these

 

 

 

Oh yes please.

[Covkid]

7 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Or ....

 

 

..... a great shame two manufacturers have chosen to produce the same British ferry van.

 

I had no idea Sonic were producing the BR ferryman that Rapido had announced, nor who actually announced first. I would welcome the above vans  especially the blue Transfesa "onion vans".

[nightstar.train]

6 hours ago, Covkid said:

 

I had no idea Sonic were producing the BR ferryman that Rapido had announced, nor who actually announced first. I would welcome the above vans  especially the blue Transfesa "onion vans".

 
Rapido announced it first, but it seems Sonic were already well advanced with theirs when Rapido announced. So Sonic decided to keep quiet until theirs were literally arriving into retailers warehouses. 

[SteamingWales]

9 hours ago, nightstar.train said:

Rapido announced it first, but it seems Sonic were already well advanced with theirs when Rapido announced. So Sonic decided to keep quiet until theirs were literally arriving into retailers warehouses. 

 

I think I read it in the Rails thread for the vans that they had held off announcing them until the Rapido ones had sold through

 

It works both as IIRC Rapido didn't announce the Minks until Rails lot had sold through too 

 

Anyway back to Accurascale?

[The Ghost of IKB]

Well its already wednesday and no ones said it yet so here goes.....

Class 40 anyone?

 

 

D'Oh! Its Tuesday!  I'll have to do this again tomorrow!

Edited May 16, 2023 by The Ghost of IKB
Disorientated to time and day, senility setting in.

[tinsley-toton]

3 hours ago, The Ghost of IKB said:

Well its already wednesday and no ones said it yet so here goes.....

Class 40 anyone?

Even on a Tuesday I'd have 6 disc, 3 split box and 3 centre headcode versions 👍  

[97406]

5 hours ago, The Ghost of IKB said:

Well its already wednesday and no ones said it yet so here goes.....

Class 40 anyone?

 

1 hour ago, tinsley-toton said:

Even on a Tuesday I'd have 6 disc, 3 split box and 3 centre headcode versions 👍  

 

It's the oddballs that I'd particularly like, like 40044 and 40139 with the nose end doors removed and replaced with a flush panel. I'll settle for owt in blue, though!

[Human8984]

Personally i think the LNER Small-engine roster needs a bit of new life, Class N5, C2, N1 or D6 Would be nice (I Have somewhat of a GNR/GCR Bias) 

[Flying Pig]

55 minutes ago, Human8984 said:

Personally i think the LNER Small-engine roster needs a bit of new life, Class N5, C2, N1 or D6 Would be nice (I Have somewhat of a GNR/GCR Bias) 

 

I'm generally rather fed up with the "creeping perfection" paradigm of endless retools, but there are actually a couple of LNER passenger tanks that are getting very long in the tooth and deserve revisiting: the N2 (Airfix/Hornby) and the V1/V3 (Bachmann).  With rtr Quad-Arts on the horizon, surely someone will have a go at the N2, but my (NER biassed) preference is for the V1/V3.

 

I know someone who would go handbags at dawn with you over the choice between the N5 and an N9 or N10.  Personally, I think an N1 would make a very pretty model and while somewhere there is a timeline where Bachmann did make a C13, in ours it's still to do (I know about 00 Works).

[tinsley-toton]

57 minutes ago, 97406 said:

 

 

It's the oddballs that I'd particularly like, like 40044 and 40139 with the nose end doors removed and replaced with a flush panel. I'll settle for owt in blue, though!

Even 127 and 131 if the front doors are separate parts (plus limited editions of 062 with ugly headcode panels and 069 with the cutaway sides, or maybe not !!)

[97406]

46 minutes ago, tinsley-toton said:

Even 127 and 131 if the front doors are separate parts (plus limited editions of 062 with ugly headcode panels and 069 with the cutaway sides, or maybe not !!)

There was one of the later central headcode ones (145-199) with a proper plated over headcode panel at one end in the style of the 37s and Deltics. Can't recall which one it was or find it online at the moment but there will be pics of it somewhere.

 

Edit: Typical! Found it straight after posting. 40158 https://railphotoprints.uk/p692212777/eeea791

Edited May 16, 2023 by 97406

[cs233]

A DMU of some kind seems a good step one with a multitude of livery options to ensure maximum return on the tooling:

 

Class 150 (Bachmann tooling around 14 years of age)

Class 170 (No reasonable model currently available)

Class 158 (Went head to head with Bachmann on the 37 and 55 locos, why not do it again)

 

 

[97406]

1 hour ago, tinsley-toton said:

Even 127 and 131 if the front doors are separate parts (plus limited editions of 062 with ugly headcode panels and 069 with the cutaway sides, or maybe not !!)

 

34 minutes ago, 97406 said:

There was one of the later central headcode ones (145-199) with a proper plated over headcode panel at one end in the style of the 37s and Deltics. Can't recall which one it was or find it online at the moment but there will be pics of it somewhere.

 

Edit: Typical! Found it straight after posting. 40158 https://railphotoprints.uk/p692212777/eeea791

A better pic from this link… https://www.pinterest.com/pin/40158-carlisle-new-yd-4883--492862752954674136/

 

[BVMR21]

It would be good to see some different coaches for the current steam range from Accurascale that could be utilised for most areas, whilst there are some GWR coaches available there are still others that are yet to be done or yet to be done to 21st century standards, GER doesn't have much if any coaching stock ready to run as far as I am aware.

[sulzer71]

20 hours ago, 97406 said:

 

A better pic from this link… https://www.pinterest.com/pin/40158-carlisle-new-yd-4883--492862752954674136/

 

@MP40058 has just recreated this one I believe

[sulzer71]

1 minute ago, sulzer71 said:

@MP40058 has just recreated this one I believe

@MP40058

[Covkid]

23 hours ago, cs233 said:

A DMU of some kind seems a good step one with a multitude of livery options to ensure maximum return on the tooling:

 

Class 150 (Bachmann tooling around 14 years of age)

Class 170 (No reasonable model currently available)

Class 158 (Went head to head with Bachmann on the 37 and 55 locos, why not do it again)

 

 

Out of my era but I am sure Bachmann do the class 170. In fact yes. There is an XC liveried one in our case at work.

 

Classes 126 119 120 123 and 124 are what some of us need.

[Downer]

32 minutes ago, Covkid said:

Out of my era but I am sure Bachmann do the class 170. In fact yes. There is an XC liveried one in our case at work.

 

Classes 126 119 120 123 and 124 are what some of us need.

You forgot the 125.