eldomtom2
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Genuine question, has any reviewer noted that the KR Models Fell has glaring inaccuracies?
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We shall see what Model Rail and Revolution do for their VoR tanks...
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Lima is still used for Hornby's Italian models. I do agree that the Railroad name has to go though - it in no way conveys that it is a budget range.
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One EMU and one loco is hardly all the Met - and the Underground more broadly - has to offer. In particular the A Class is a rather appealing subject for a manufacturer, having several points in its favour: Long service life (84 years) One preserved The Metropolitan sold several locos to, and copies were made by Beyer-Peacock for, several other railways, so there is potential for quite a wide range of pre-grouping liveries - as mentioned by others, it would go well with the generic 4/6-wheelers
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As previously mentioned, it is the 160th anniversary of the Met, so I wouldn't be surprised if we did see something Underground-related.
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I actually started a thread on this topic long before Hornby announced their big TT push - there's quite a lot of British loco classes that found their way abroad. And I wasn't including all the locos like Royal Scot that went off on promotional trips overseas, or preservation-era trips like Flying Scot...
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Personally I am not so sure. I think if they were really smart, they'd be doing things like rethinking train sets. At the moment the only thing new about TT:120 is the scale, everything else is the same old Hornby business model.
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Why would they need a new mould for the old 0-4-0 chassis though? They still seem to be making stuff from all the old moulds (CR Pug, GWR 101, King George V, Class 06, Bagnall diesel, the ex-clockwork Thomas, and now the unbranded Percy). Since they're aimed at an audience unconcerned with prototype accuracy, I don't see what a new model on the chassis would offer...
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Personally if I was in model manufacturing I would be looking at non-China countries to manufacture in - isn't there a fair bit in eastern Europe? Plus Airfix makes most of their stuff in India, though admittedly plastic kits are simple enough you can even make them in the UK and still sell them at a competitive price.
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I'm not sure I'd call Oświęcim a small village - it had over 17,000 inhabitants before the Nazis expelled most of them to keep eyes away from the camp under construction.
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I believe the TT range has been in the works for several years - IIRC one of the ex-Hornby designers now at Accurascale said it was in the works when they left.
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I maintain that "experience" rules out a new model.
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I strongly doubt that - there is a well-known plastic kit manufacturer that manufactures almost entirely in the UK and also happens to be in the FTSE 250...
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Have you reported the error to them?
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Maybe. The circumstances are undoubtedly different to previous times in which Tillig has perceived competition.
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It looks like Hornby are getting what they want - the problem is, I'm not sure a new scale on its own will be enough to save them. They have failed to use TT as a chance to reconceptualiise their ideas of what a train set is, for instance - they are just doing the exact same thing they do in OO, just in a different scale.
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The article is explicitly about that in relation to offshoring.
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A rather poor analysis I feel - offshoring is not a UK-specific phenomeon, and the article fails to compare the UK to other countries.
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Of course, it is worth noting than China is consciously making an attempt to move away from being a manufacturer of other countries' designs... From a certain perspective, but this is venturing into politics.
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I am not entirely sure of the relevance of all that to model manufacturing, though.
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Would probably be more helpful if it said what "loaded" and "discharged" meant.
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You seem to be making assumptions about what I am saying.
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I am not just speaking of Hornby here - this applies to other manufacturers as well, since after all China is where all the factories with experience making model trains are.
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At least some of that is definitely inertia though.
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But nor do you eliminate everywhere except China...
