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Hi everyone, for those interested the "clean" silver bullets will be on sale through all stockists participating in the BRM show at Alexandra Palace in in 10 or so days time! Normal stockists should get theirs by that weekend or at worst on the Monday morning. The weathered ones will be with Kernow shortly after. I hope this helps? Cheers Dave P.s. The N gauge clean variant order forms have just gone out to stockists so reserve yours soon.

Hi everyone, Class 22 in OO latest cad/cam pictures up. I cannot and will not go into details of the delay but everything is now back on track for a 2010 release. Enjoy. cheers Dave Dapol Ltd

Hi everyone, Tust another 'heads up' to let you all know that the first factory finished 'clean' + 'weathered' OO gauge Silver Bullets are on display on our web site right now. www.Dapol.co.uk I sincerely hope you all like them. cheers Dave Dapol Ltd

Hi everyone, Just a quick 'heads up' for those interested. I have uploaded pictures of the 'master' weathered Silver Bullet wagon in OO gauge to the Dapol web site Home page. www.Dapol.co.uk This was created for us by Mercig Studios as a model for us to use when spraying our production models, and as such the finished item should look very close to this finish. Please remember they are being produced exclusively for Kernow Model Railway centre and will not be available through other parties. cheers Dave Dapol Ltd

Hi Guys, Thanks for the comments and please keep them coming. We send out the 'barrels' (they are a 1 piece moulding with separate glue in ends) out to a company on the North Wales coast that chromes metal and plastic. It isn't cheap, but in all honesty we knew that when we started the project, hence the RRP being higher than normal for a bogie wagon, but we hope everyone thinks its worth it. Cheers Dave

Hi everyone, Just in from the 'Chromers' the first 2 samples of Silver Bullet for you all to mull over for a bit. I think they are too Chrome (if that's possible), but please let me know what you all think via this forum, and we'll go with the concensus. They are on our home page. www.Dapol.co.uk Cheers Dave

Hi, This is an easy one to reply to. As noted the original pictures show plastic. This is because when the cad/cam program is transferred to the tooling machine it includes everything (including couplers) and these are all made in plastic. So, when it comes to the first shot (used to check fit and look etc, we have plastic ladders and walkways etc. (this is always the case, and nothign to worry about) Last Friday i published on our website a revised first shot picture with the metalwork added for effect. Hope this helps? cheers Dave

Hi, It was laser scanned on thursday the 16th July at 1.47 in the afternoon (seriously) they even scanned the complete underneat and the cab at the same time. The process took about an hour in total due to this new equipment (500,000 scans per second). the first cad cam was available without the detail in August, with the picture you see on the web site available to us in late September. since then we have played with the cad a little internally to allow as much space as possible for DCC board, motor, gears etc and of course weight. We are still at the engineering phase but hope to be cutting metal quite soon. hope this helps? cheers Dave

Hi guys, the front page of the web site has been updated to include an exciting new announcement. Not saying on here, go and check www.Dapol.co.uk Cheers Dave

So many questions, lol In the shops before Christmas we hope. ??27.95 RRP Kernow for weathered ones! Hope this helps? cheers Dave

Hi guys, 1st shots are in Posted here and the same ones on our web site. Rest assured all the plastic ladders, walkways, handrails etc are etched steel on the production model. cheers Dave

Hi guys, with regards to our new weathering system can i point you in the direction of the following; http://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=24001 this should show a customers Weathered telescopic hood wagon and his views. Hope this helps cheers Dave

Hi, yes buffers are in with the MBA and MCA wagons........just in case cheers Dave

Hi guys, Just a quick note to announce the delivery at stockists of our new OO wagons. The MBA and MCA MonsterBox and Mini-Monsterbox. Details and pictures on the home page of the web site. www.Dapol.co.uk cheers Dave