Bachmann 0-6-0s in early LMS livery?

[Ian M.]

Bachmann makes a nice 4F in Midland Railway and a Midland 3F in LMS 1938 livery.  It would seem an easy product development to offer the 4F with an LMS standard tender and the 3F in the 1923 LMS livery with numbers on the tender and the cabside LMS lozenge. Any thoughts on whether Bachmann may be planning such offerings?  LMS early livery seems a rarity in OO RTR (as does Midland).  A shame if one is modelling the 1920s.

[34theletterbetweenB&D]

Seems so obvious, but - as one of the LMS illuminati observed decades past - the LMS interest is dominated by the sudden outbreak of adequate traction following Stanier's appointment. And worse yet, all but the best layouts by dedicated scratch and kit builders failed to represent the still dominant quantity of pre-Stanier design traction which was in service to the end of the LMS' existence.

[Gordieb01]

On 10/10/2023 at 07:59, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

Seems so obvious, but - as one of the LMS illuminati observed decades past - the LMS interest is dominated by the sudden outbreak of adequate traction following Stanier's appointment. And worse yet, all but the best layouts by dedicated scratch and kit builders failed to represent the still dominant quantity of pre-Stanier design traction which was in service to the end of the LMS' existence.

Yes as a modeler of the early 1930s, the lack of pre Stanier variety is frustrating.   The recent Improved Precedent was a welcome addition, (lovely model),  and we have had the Coal Tank and the L&Y 2-4-2 but vast swathes of LNRW and other Midland engines that had lasted at least to after WW2 have been ignored not to mention other companies and of course the carriages and the huge array of pre grouping goods wagons that lasted well into the Big Four Era.

[34theletterbetweenB&D]

The wagons aspect is what particularly puzzles me. As the dominant shifter of the nation's trade, you would think the model manufacturers would naturally bias toward LMS group wagons as model subjects.

 

Whatever, situation slowly improving. At least the MR 0-4-4T arrived once Bachmann had worked out a construction scheme for better weight distribution.

[Flying Pig]

When I was a lad, the great majority of layouts I saw were set pre-WW2, but even then post 1928 LMS liveries were the rule.  As for pre-Stanier rolling stock, you had to build kits (there was practically no authentic rtr LMS stock of any kind before Airfix and Mainline came along anyway).

 

There is much more available today, but there are still many parts of Britain that can't be represented with a reasonable degree of authenticity using only rtr items before about the mid 1950s.  The sheer variety of older passenger and freight stock still in widespread use defeats this.

 

25 minutes ago, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

As the dominant shifter of the nation's trade, you would think the model manufacturers would naturally bias toward LMS group wagons as model subjects.

 

A slightly different question imo, as many of these designs lasted right through the popular transition and early diesel eras.