Grimleygrid Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Not sure if this has been mentioned before so apologies in advance if it has, but I have just seen that Hornby have released their BR blue 56082. Seen on the Hatton’s website: http://www.ehattons.com/stockdetail.aspx?SID=35873 Looks rather nice to me…..I can definitely see one of these being purchased! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueeighties Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 It does look nice, but for me, Hornby has passed the point of being sensibly priced, regardless of the usual arguments about current mechanism/ detailing standards out of the box. £103 for a non dcc fitted, standard loco is too expensive. I really don't understand why Hornby are hiking their prices up so much. Regards, Lee. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimleygrid Posted October 7, 2011 Author Share Posted October 7, 2011 Lee, Do you know I didn’t even notice the price, wow £103 that is a bit steep! I presume prices have been hiked following increased production costs in China, it certainly isn’t due to shipping costs as they have dropped quite considerably over the past few months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vac_basher Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Hornby has passed the point of being sensibly priced, regardless of the usual arguments about current mechanism/ detailing standards out of the box. £103 for a non dcc fitted, standard loco is too expensive. I really don't understand why Hornby are hiking their prices up so much. Well, you just have to do what I do then: don't buy. Either wait till another manufactor does a better version, or in the meantime you could do up an old Mainline/Dapol one, which wasn't really such a bad model at the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyneux Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 It's a pity that they haven't done a Romanian one this year. I was hoping to model 56001 Whatley and could do with one to base it on. Also I wonder why they changed R3052 from 56031 into 56037? Maybe they realised that 56032 has the earlier style bufferbeam cowl and they weren't able to fit this together with the later body? I'm keen for a model of 56031, so I'm going to try and fit a Heljan class 47 cowl to R3052 (56032) to see if it fits and then renumber, re-sector and rename it. For £100 I'd expect Hornby to have improved the tooling... at least some better fan grills! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickL2008 Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Seconded, was disappointed when I saw it wasnt a Romanian 56 that Hornby had done, wanted one to do 56006 out of... Hornbys 56 is good, but it requires some modifications to get it looking even better. NL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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