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These are produced by a member of our club, and all our layouts have them. Generally very good, but have a slight delay between the turn of the knob / app and the reaction of the loco on track that you don't get with a conventional controller. Great for continous running, but not ideal for shunting. If you drop Ian a message, he'll probably be happy to chat :)

Very possibly. I'll note that having dug into it a bit, they actually produced the whole thing as solid whitemetal first before dropping to just the cabs. Exactly what it was will be lost to the mists of time unless someone on here picked the thing up :P

With regards to the HST conundrum, I ran across on a second-hand stall at an exhibition several years ago a pair of prototype HST power cars. My thoughts at the time were scratchbuilt, but this makes me wonder. Blue-grey livery, and IIRC somewhat dodgy paintwork but reasonably well built. Didn't purchase mind, so no images or anything.

I've got all 5 D600s courtesy of KMRC. It's all 5 livery variants too, which wasn't strictly intentional but is probably actually reasonably prototypical..... (Green, Green SYP, Green FYE, Blue SYP, Blue FYE)

Painted red makes me wonder if its actually the very similar DHP1 on test. https://m.facebook.com/groups/ProjectDHP1/

I'm not blaming anyone personally- You have a thankless job. However in my opinion, the various KR threads have gone well beyond the bounds of constructive criticism + debate and instead have degenerated into bashing them at every opportunity. Sooner or later, we as customers need to accept the situation as-is. It's the moderators job (and yes, I've done this elsewhere albeit on a smaller scale) to reign this in and bring it back to a reasoned discussion. Bluntly, 20 pages of an outraged screaming echo-chamber that the model fails to represent the prototype before the last thread got locked is *not* that, and that's exactly the same way this thread is going.

Blunt answer- There are some self-styled 'experts' (trolls), who are the entirety of the problem, and the moderators are totally failing to reign in the vitriol. KR's communication is abjectly poor, and said 'experts' made suggestions, which were either brushed off or ignored totally, along with often confused and misleading communications to the general public, and a general scarcity of images of the work in progress / feedback to the community at large. As I noted in my previous post on the subject, it took ~30 pages of argument before we managed to find a set of pictures which were (probably) taken on the same day of (probably) the two different sides, so I understand & accept the difficulty here- I'm not faulting them on the model they produced, but the abject communications. Whether they've made the right choices is debatable, but at the end of the day they've put up the cash and produced a model. Some of these appear to have had issues, but the vitriol echo-chamber and poor communications from KR appears to have magnified these issues out of all proportion. At the end of the day, producing a RTR model is far more than anyone else has managed.

There is a certain subset of members here who are doing nothing more, nothing less than trolling. This totally derailed the Fell thread, and I'm afraid it's happened again here in spades. Bluntly, the whole thread needs cleaning and locking, and IMHO this reflects badly upon the site as a whole.

The motors are junk IMHO, and the whole drivetrain on these is a ticking time bomb. Known Issues: Plastic main motor shaft bearing- Continuous loaded running can and will overheat and distort this. Main drive gears split. Stupidly complex geartrain, which tends to lockup totally when a gear splits. Too light. Best thing to do with one is to drop it on a Lima chassis.

Not as bad as it looks price wise. Starting bid is probably top-end of price range, but not totally insane. It's got most of a Battlespace set in there (missile, copter + ambulance + 31) plus the other bits including 4 locos (sure, at least 2 are ropey)

You'll find there are various variations on this and the NBL & the 0-4-0 shunter chassis. These are what I know of: Large can, brass wheels & all wheel drive is earliest. Later variants have drive to one set of wheels only (bogie in the NBL case). Usually silver wheels, I presume Nickel silver. Final variants have a motor similar to the X04, shared with the Jouef Class 40. Single wheel drive on this. Silver wheels again.

FWIW, on analog, there is no tail light. That suggests something in the decoder setup to me, but I'm not going anywhere near that DCC stuff 😃

21 pages (plus the debate afterwards as to whether the consist had been reformed, for the return journey, hence reversed loco), and my point precisely stands 🤣 It looks perfectly like a reasonable enough Fell to me. Not perfect, but you forget that nothing is- Even the 00 track gauge isn't correct if you really want to be pedantic about it. However, as I know comparatively very little about the prototype, my opinion is invalid, obviously. Please go away and come back with an 'accurate' Fell, with no pre-payment, and at the same price point. I might take you more seriously then......

On the subject of symmetry, I feel that many members are conveniently forgetting that it took 30 odd pages of argument in this thread to produce 2 definitive pictures from the same day of different sides. Many (I suspect the majority of the average model buyers) will not know whether what is supplied to be accurate or not, and will just be interested in looks [moudling / painting standards] and running. My issue is not with the model delivered, but with the frankly abjectly poor communication from KR. I think we had about 2 or 3 images over the past 18 months and a couple of videos not really showing too much. Vague dates and promises add to the issue..... When you're taking payment in advance, this isn't a business model to produce satisfied customers.....

So, a while back (as you do...), I acquired a bunch of second-hand baseboards. Having stripped these, and repurposed those which I want, there are a total of 4 spare as follows: Board #1 1.2m L x 70cm W Unfortunately the worst of the lot, as it's got a turntable hole. Board #2 1.2m L x 70cm W Few minor top surface holes, good condition though. Board #3 1.2m L x 1m W Several point motor holes, nothing really major though, especially for the size. Board #4 1.2m L x 70cm W Unfortunately this one also has quite a few point motor holes. Nothing *major* but it's also not brilliant. These boards are built of 1cm MDF throughout, with a 4cm polystyrene strengthening layer and cross-battons underneath. All are heavy, but you'd likely to get them into the back of a large car. The legs are separate, and again built of 1cm MDF & are 95cm long. Unfortunately, there are only 4 legs, but these are easy enough to knock up if you can do carpentry. They have the original fittings attached, but I'm afraid that I picked and chose the best ones that fit my purpose, so this may not help much :) I should however have a bag of bolts / fitting about somewhere, which I will try and find if someone is interested, but essentially assume that new fittings and some extra legs will be needed. I'm located in Norwich. Please drop me a PM or email if interested, and we can discuss further.