Paul.Uni Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 (edited) Edited April 13 by Paul.Uni 7 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MikeParkin65 Posted April 12 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 12 Does the green background imply this is 009 announcement? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Roy Langridge Posted April 12 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 12 2 minutes ago, MikeParkin65 said: Does the green background imply this is 009 announcement? That is my thoughts and ties in with them being at the Statfold Model Railway Exhibition Roy 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Young Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Whilst I keep my fingers crossed for an O-16.5 ‘Dorothea’…. If it’s 009, wonder what item of the Statfold collection could be next? Darj B? Not long til we find out 😁 Andrew 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Downer Posted April 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 12 It’s only about 25 days to the next quarterly announcement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MrTea Posted April 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 12 Darj B would be a great choice. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nightstar.train Posted April 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 12 Oh please oh please oh please be a NGG16. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee. I’ve been ever so good and it’s my birthday soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Sadly no clues to be seen at all during setting up at Statfold tonight. But given location of announcement and the green background in the video link 009 seems a definite doesn't it. Perhaps a James Spooner to finish off the preserved Fairlies or an NG16 as they seem to be popular wants every announcement cycle. Darjeeling 19B as an outside bet but again no doubt would be popular and could be done in partnership with with the 19b society with donations to the boiler fund. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleRedTrain Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Would definitely be up for 19B (was at the supporters' day just last week!), especially if they did it in a set with the two carriages. Also possible would be one or more of Statfold's several resident Quarry Hunslets using the existing tooling. Much as I'd love an NG16, there's no way it'd fit on my layout (and would a look a bit silly with a 3-coach limit on my loops anyway). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Well, it's the 13th now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Young Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 8 hours ago, Karl said: Sadly no clues to be seen at all during setting up at Statfold tonight. But given location of announcement and the green background in the video link 009 seems a definite doesn't it. Perhaps a James Spooner to finish off the preserved Fairlies or an NG16 as they seem to be popular wants every announcement cycle. Darjeeling 19B as an outside bet but again no doubt would be popular and could be done in partnership with with the 19b society with donations to the boiler fund. The only given from the green background and the location of the announcement is that it will be a narrow gauge model….. those of us who don’t model 009 still have an hour and a half of hoping left. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy L S Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Very interesting, but aligns with the changes to how Bachmann will be announcing new models going forward. The green hints 009 and Statfold is about pretty much all things narrow gauge, but the exhibition itself isn't. Nonetheless I would still put my money on 009, maybe not a loco but a piece of rolling stock. Roy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mcowgill Posted April 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13 I wonder if it might be a variation on the Quarry Hunlset theme. Statfold is home to Michael, one of the Dinorwich 'Port' class, straight frames/full height buffer beam and higher pitched domed boiler. That would also open up the option of a late Dinorwic era mongrel Dolbadarn, same frames but fitted with an earlier lower pitch domeless boiler as per Alice, Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manchester765 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Wonderful choice by Bachmann - think these are going to revolutionise 7mm narrow gauge modelling and bring it to the fore of people's minds much more than the L&B tanks ever did. 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul.Uni Posted April 13 Author Share Posted April 13 So the announcement is a new range of 7mm scale models called NG7. The first models are the Quarry Hunslets, Dinorwic Slate Wagons and some Scenecraft buildings. Liveries to be announced in the Summer announcements. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted April 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13 Wow! I'm going to find those locos difficult to resist 😮 And great to see Bachmann putting some thought into moving couplings forwards once again. Only (minor) down side for me is those figures look a bit Camberwick Green. I thought with 3D scanning we'd finally left Orcs and Hobbits behind. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted April 13 Moderators Share Posted April 13 Press info... April 2024 (3) - Bachmann Narrow Gauge NG7 Quarry Hunslet Specification.pdf April 2024 (2) - Bachmann Europe launches NG7 Narrow Gauge range.pdf 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Graham_Muz Posted April 13 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 13 18 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Very clever start to Bachmann's announcement, with the filming/narration in the style of BTF filmography (if that's a word...) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 1 hour ago, franciswilliamwebb said: Only (minor) down side for me is those figures look a bit Camberwick Green. I thought with 3D scanning we'd finally left Orcs and Hobbits behind. But just right for Chigley. The contemporary primary school generation will be retiring fairly soon. 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted April 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13 14 minutes ago, 34theletterbetweenB&D said: But just right for Chigley. The contemporary primary school generation will be retiring fairly soon. Already have :) Cheers Darius Time flies by when I’m the driver of a train… 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13 Very good choice! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted April 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13 Anyone else noticed that these lovely models are being produced to the incorrect ‘mongrel’ gauge of 16.5mm, equating to 2’4”, rather than the correct gauge of 2’, for which 14mm is the scale equivalent? Of coarse I understand why, it’s commercial, but it’s inaccurate. Let’s hope an 014 conversion can be produced, which will probably need new or reprofiled wheels to meet the EM wheel standards for 014. Hopefully EDM Models will offer a solution… Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Nile Posted April 13 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted April 13 Well that didn't take long. Every silver lining has a cloud..... Next you'll be complaining that the wagons don't have double flanged wheels. I'm happy to accept the compromises needed for model railways. 17 1 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy L S Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Lovely looking models, I feel sure they will find a "niche" in their own right and as a feeder for standard gauge layouts in O too, a great use for Peco O-16.5 track and refreshing to see this mentioned in the video. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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