RMweb Premium James Makin Posted June 30, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 30, 2014 Well I've just started work on rebuilding a Lima Class 59 yesterday in preparation for the announcement of an all-singing & dancing high-spec version next month! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250BOB Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Is the release date of the catalogue the approx date we get to know on RMweb, or is there an advance online announcement .? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 And maybe a GWR 2-8-0 night owl, to promote the new build project. I would definitely love to see a big 4700 (particularly in N gauge). Whilst the new-build project will hopefully raise interest in the class, my feeling is that this is more likely to be announced once 4709 is getting close to steaming. I think the loco is still at least a couple of years away from first raising steam. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Or did the prototypes vary enough to make the 43xx family a bit of a minefield? The GWR Moguls had some variation but not enough to be a serious problem IMHO as the class is well researched and the variations are well documented. The 43xx series are not a great start as most of them were withdrawn during the 30s to provide parts for the Granges and Manors. The 53xxs had weights added to turn them into Red-route 83xxs (and then reverted back again just before nationalisation). The easiest choice is the 63xxs which actually start from 5390 and run to 7321. These were not significantly modified during their lifetimes. The only major change was the addition of outside steam pipes. Even this is not really a problem as some of the class had them fitted from new and the dates the rest acquired pipes are well documented. So a 63xx mogul with outside steam pipes is valid from 1925 - 1965 without any detail alterations. It also covers all the main livery variations as well as quite a few one-offs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Although I'm not a WR modeller, surely a properly proportioned model of the Mogul is long overdue. Any GW or WR layout without a smattering of these is a bit like a model of an ex-LSWR main line with no S15s........ Or did the prototypes vary enough to make the 43xx family a bit of a minefield? John The mogul has common frames and wheels with Manors, Granges and big prairies. Bachmann appeared to be preparing for an upgrade a while back but nothing appeared. I agree with Station master Mike that the Manor may come first with the mogul to follow. Why? It would not make sense for Bachmann to produce a fictitious Kaki City class for the ambulance train if the mogul was imminent, an engine that actually carried Kaki livery. Just my opinion Mike Wiltshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Griffin Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Any further re-chassis jobs will presumably be outside the 3 'new tooling' items promised. The J39 is getting urgent for a mate of mine as two of his six are showing their age quite badly with the remainder being worked more intensively to cover for them. One of my Lord Nelsons bit the dust a couple of years ago but the other is still going strong. John I used to have '1974' but it went pop years ago. If love another one but I'm dcc now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted June 30, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2014 I've a gut feeling that we're going to see the only Class 8P that BR inherited on New Year's Day 1948 in any great number that has not been retooled post the year 2000. It would infact be a royal poaching from the blue team's main competitor... So that would be a Great Western King, then...... Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Andy W Posted June 30, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2014 Now that makes sense, "King Richard III" released in the year of the reburial, by a company with its offices in Leicestershire. Useful tie-ins. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 I've a gut feeling that we're going to see the only Class 8P that BR inherited on New Year's Day 1948 in any great number that has not been retooled post the year 2000. It would infact be a royal poaching from the blue team's main competitor... No locos with 8P classification were inherited by BR. LMS Duchess, LMS Princess were 7P and the GWR and SR never used the 'P' rating on their King and Merchant Navy locos. BR re-rated them all 8P eventually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted June 30, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2014 It seems that both Bachmann and Hornby are looking at certain pre grouping companies. No doubt that Bachmann are following the Midland and as such the 1P 0 4 4t would be nice with a 2P to modern standards a bonus.... With the announcement of the Atlantic and the E4, can we expect more LB&SCR subjects? A C2xx could be a good start but a K mogul would make sense...long lived etc.. A H class 0 4 4t to join the C class ???? or even a P class 0 6 0.... Hornby started well with the M7 and T9 from the L&SWR. ...Bachmann could steal their thunder and go for the Adams radial ( OMG!!) or 700 0 6 0 goods.. We shall see..... Rob Still stand by my earlier post, with the obvious exception of the Black motor. However the thought of a Stanier Pacific is intriguing. ....... Maunsell Q anyone ? To add to this, a couple of wonderfully atmospheric images from the David Hey collection. Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Griffin Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 now ive seen the lower image above, I finally have seen a loco that resemble james from thomas and friends! a long mystery solved! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ryde-on-time Posted June 30, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2014 Now that makes sense, "King Richard III" released in the year of the reburial, by a company with its offices in Leicestershire. Useful tie-ins. Unfortunately the reburial is scheduled for next year, a few years too early for Bachmann to have a loco ready at their current rate! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold farren Posted June 30, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2014 Thats alright Leicester council isn't always on schedule over 3 year's to move main offices and that's with insurers not wanting to insure the building on the account of the floors falling out with the walls Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 30, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 30, 2014 now ive seen the lower image above, I finally have seen a loco that resemble james from thomas and friends! a long mystery solved! Far from it - in many respects. James is a Belpaire firebox inside cylinder 2-6-0 and as such very closely resembles the Dublin & South Eastern 2-6-0s of 1922 or the CR Drummond 'Austrian Goods'. However reputedly Awdry stated that James was based on an L&Y Class 27/28 0-6-0 with an added pony truck. So maybe Bachmann are working on the L&Y engine? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Now that makes sense, "King Richard III" released in the year of the reburial, by a company with its offices in Leicestershire. Useful tie-ins. Also a play by William Shakespeare, which was quite a popular loco name. There's no point duplicating a Britannia, but the name was carried by a class 87... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhys Underwood Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Don't know if I've said this before, class 207 thumper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted July 2, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2014 Can't be long now before we are put out our misery. When is the announcement? Mind you at Bachmanns current higher prices, this announcement could well be irrelevant ......................unless it's. caley 812! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul.Uni Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 IIRC the announcement is on the 20th Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted July 3, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2014 This thread generally concentrates on locomotives, but Bachmann have a good reputation for wagons too. They are well on the way to having a brake van for each of the 'big four' and BR; once they finish that, how about a similar range of cattle wagons? John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulleidnutter Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I'll throw my 2 pence in and hope for flush glazed, scale Bulleids with more variations. Would love to see a U boat 2-6-0. Either way the 20th will tell all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 3, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 3, 2014 Ah wagons, a nice ex LNER Flatrol EN would go down a treat, with its counter balance arms and the two war flats and pair of 4 wheeled flatrols that went with it. Or a BR boiler EB. Might be a bit difficult to get them to go round 2nd radius curves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted July 3, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 3, 2014 I'm going on holiday on the 12th. What's the betting that by the time I'm back home in early August and can read the new releases thread without paying mobile roaming charges, it will already run to the 41 pages this thread has reached Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60800 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 It's increasingly unlikely now, given the news of how much another run of the midland Pullman would cost to produce, but how about an APT-P? I have a gut feeling that with Rapido announcing the APT-E and the current buzz (pun intended) for a new selection of AC electrics, that a new APT-P isn't far behind..... Despite this, I'm going to keep my head firmly in the region of 'Air Smoothed' Merchant Navy, Class 87 and either a medium sized ex-LSWR SR engine or a Stanier pacific Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaneofFife Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 if anyone were to look to APT-P i would bet on Rapido having a sniff. certainly pricewise if the APT-E is anything to go by most people would rather pay Rapido prices than Bachmann prices especially if a rerun of the BP is thought to cost around £550 if it were released today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 ...What's the betting that by the time I'm back home in early August and can read the new releases thread ...it will already run to the 41 pages this thread has reached Think that's bad? After 18 pages of froth you will read that all the best releases went on sale July 21st, 24 pages further that all sold out in three days flat, and then there are 13 more pages of folks bemoaning their appearance on eboy at 100% mark up. Cancel that holiday now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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