GreenGiraffe22

I think I'm going to be the only one welcoming the carriage unlined, I run a fictitious Brighton - Portsmouth dining service consisting of the Dunkirk set with a restaurant 1st and open third in the front with a van B, and it's actually the lined open third that sticks out 😛 although sometimes I stick extra lined composite carriages on if I decide its an extra busy service 😛 Inspired by H2s actually operating Brington-Portsmouth albeit with different stock https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-Railways-British-Isles/SR-and-BRS/LBSCR-tender-locomotives/LBSCR-H2/i-FwgN3g6 Edit: Easter Holidays service!

Rapido keeps announcing the good stuff 😁

Here's a video I made the other day (more videos in the replies) Unsurprisingly, I have late SR versions of all the wagons.

I didn't even notice, I had to read 3 more times to spot it lol, I shared the photo because I thought it was a fun blurb to stick on the box =)

My ROF one arrived from Derails today, absolutely raising the bar, Rapido =) my first product from you, you're the ones to watch!

I think you know what I meant.

While not something I'm interested in, I admire you for going against the tiresome "if it didn't last till BR it won't be viable" narrative.

Currently Rapido seem to be the only model company taking my money, I look forward to seeing what other Southern items come from you in the future =)

Hmmm I'm not sure, if it's anything like my pair of D classes it'll just turn into a bit of expensive siding scenery... My Ds both stall and derail so much they're unusable on my current layout. Edit: tactical avoidance of any 3s on the Maunsell green ones? :p

According to the newsletter they are focusing on the BR and IoW versions first as they were the most popular in the survey, fair play to them but disappointing for me. Those who voted better buy!

That carriage caught my eye too. According to Graham Muz: "R40221 SR, Maunsell Dining Saloon Third [sic] (actually a Composite Dining Saloon), 7844 to Diagram 2658 in SR green as approximately between July 1947 and mid 1949." https://southern-railway.com/2022/01/10/Hornby-announce-their-2022-range-new-liveries-for-sr-brs-items/?amp

Uninspiring range for me, but I don't think this range is aimed at me, someone who is after useful workaday Southern stock, I just wanted a humble wartime black A1x and sods law, if I want one I gotta buy an expensive limited edition pack it would seem, (if any LBSCR modellers who just want Poplar wanna go halves with me on it, let me know! You can keep the box)

Finally a wartime black Terrier! Oh, I gotta buy it in a limited addition anniversary pack... Are Hornby trolling me? Edit : Anyone wanna go halves with me and keep Poplar?

I think it might be worth having a bowl of popcorn ready Monday morning!

WW2 Ambulance yes please!

It will come as a surprise to no one that my request has gone in for SR black :p but I will likely take a second in SR lined if both are made =) I hope it goes ahead!

My guess is Rapido might take it on solo, fantastic to hear it isn't dead in the water =)

Yep these prices seem to be the new normal now, is what it is. I'd feel more inclined to do kits if they were a bit more like airfix kits, with clear building and painting instructions and transfers included. A couple of wagon kits I've tried have had dreadful instructions and not gone together particularly well and just not been remotely enjoyable for me.

I'd heard through the grape vine a CAD was being put together and then I heard recently it's been put on hold indefinitely which is a great shame if true.

I've found it really odd that Rails have been completely silent about them since they were waiting to clear customs, I guess they're probably very busy but if it weren't for places like this forum you'd never know they'd arrived, I thought they'd be shouting about them all over their social media

I think what Dapol managed to do was put sunshine numbers on the olive tender. The 3 and 7 font style are the same albeit a bit stretched on the tender and without the shading.

Looking very slick in black!

Was looking at my bank account because it's bill day and another payment has gone to rails so I guess the Southern sunshine one is coming! This one has no lining to mess up at least just potentially over sized letters and numbers but we'll see!

Was just testing it on my 9 carriage fictitious prestigious Brighton - Bournemouth express (usually hauled with ease by my H2) but it's far too light, can hear the engine making that grinding struggling sound and the bogies are lifting clean off the track with that many carriages, pity. Think I'll stick to the birdcage trio Edit: overall feeling a little underwhelmed and disappointed, perhaps my expectations were too high, but I'm definitely thinking I no longer want both of them, I think perhaps I might just keep the Sunshine one when it arrives and return the Olive. A malachite H2 is looking real tasty.

I was trying to create some 1930s Southern realism with my new D Class but it looks more like a photo from a 1950s model railway mag... :')