Darstaed

Dear David, Thank you for your valuable advice. Darstaed adheres to the adage “the best product for the best value” because I like the hobby to be fun and affordable. This means by necessity that we have to find a compromise between how many variations we make and tooling expenditure on one hand and what detailing would please the majority of the customers. For those who wish to take it further there are many options available but at a cost of course. We will study your observations and see what is practical. As manufacturers we consider making the best product we can as an investment in the future and we will do everything to make the maximum with the means available. Cheers, Andries. Dear Deltic 17, May I suggest you contact Bob or Ellis for extra bogies ? If routed through the supply chain your request will be attended to, Cheers, Andries

Dear David, Thank you for your post, your keen observation has halted a serious error creeping into production. The samples shown are so called “T1” samples made of parts produced with the tooling to see if everything fits, fortunately production is still at the spraying/printing stage which by itself takes weeks to finish. I had a meeting this afternoon with the etching people and they take two weeks to make new sides both for the B+C livery and the others. The seats are modular and can be moved in any direction. October 1st to October 10th are holidays here in China so shipment is now scheduled for the end of October. I really appreciate constructive criticism of our products and gladly accept any advice, after all the better the product the better for all. If you could let me know what the other 27 faults are I would be grateful, you can email me @ : grabowsky@darstaed.com The moment we have samples made up of the rest of the liveries I will publish them here for your kind perusal. With our locomotives and coaches we usually include a booklet. The booklet for the MK coaches can be seen here : http://darstaed.com/images/MK%20I%20-%20Booklet%20Final.pdf Cheers, Andries Grabowsky Darstaed