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I'd order two or three in NSE, plus any in Connex or Southern. That would be my number 1 model if it existed.

That’s good news as I missed out on some unbranded ones last time. Thanks for your undoubted involvement in getting the order book re-opened. I’ve asked if they can switch some of my order. Between your HOA and MMA wagons I’ve got a lot of pre-orders!

It’s looking very good. Wonderful work on this.

Seeing as we're making suggestions for run 2, I'll throw my suggestions in: - Transrail Dutch - 56081 in rail freight grey red stripe when it was super shunter at Dove Holes - Debranded Fastine - 56311 in DCR grey

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As a designer I hate colour discussions. Especially when using a photograph, there's just too many variables. Also, colours can appear different depending on what colour they're placed next to. I have a £700 Pantone swatch book I have to use for colour matching and I still can't always get the exact match as materials, light, temperature, paint/ink coverage (and pretty much anything else you can think of) can impact on the colour. If Cavalex have matched it to the brand standards then I can't see the room for debate - they're the official colours, they've been checked and matched and given Cavalex have put a lot of detail into this, I'm sure they're correct.

Yes I am. I contacted them this morning and they responded in minutes saying they have my order but haven't processed it yet. I'm also waiting on my other 56 from Collet's, so assume it's just the same. Lots of people must have pre-ordered this and we're just in the queue.

I’d get the Porterbrook livery that Hornby mag are doing, but at that price? No.

Well I’ve pre-ordered one. I hope it happens as I’ve missed on the P class in that livery.

Can I just clarify something though, the DCC sound versions have a hall sensor fitted but the non-DCC versions don't? I'm in the dark to be honest as to how they work.

In answer to Fran's post, I think the pricing of the Irish MU's feels about right. One thing I want to highlight as it's been discussed on the Cavalex forum is how good partial.ly is as a method of paying. It's not credit and I don't have £500 on hand to spend in one go, but over three months I can manage it and not worry about something selling out. Which I think is particularly useful when talking about buying an MU which won't be cheap. I'd most likely buy multiples of any southern EMU that ran from the NSE toothpaste era to now. I personally wouldn't but anything longer than an 8 car unit (a lot of platforms at suburban stations can only take 8/10 coaches anyway) so whether that was two 377's or a 455 and a 456 together, I guess it would depend on what was available to make combinations. One thing I find slightly crazy is that I can't model almost any of the modern south that easily (unless I buy a Bratchell model which is massively expensive and I still have to do the interior and the motor), but I can pretty much model the very niche Oxted line with my 205's and 170, which I think shows that DMU's are generally well represented, but EMU's are not nearly as good.

I'd love to see the modern era southern units modelled. To me it's amazing the Electrostars haven't been done or the 319's in OO. There's tons of liveries, reasonably good geographic spread of the prototype. I also imagine given the population of the areas they serve loads of people will have had some connection to them. I also selfishly want a class 455 and 456 (Connex 'Sir Cosmo Bonsor' 😉) but I can appreciate that these have less liveries and geographical spread. But if Hornby can make the FLIRT (which would seem way more limited to me) then I'd say these would surely be more viable given they're a Mk3 bodyshell. By the way, I'm 38 and I buy the odd steam loco for fun, but MU's are what I'd much prefer to see. The only passenger loco hauled trains I've seen were the Gatwick Express, TPE Mk5's and Virgin XC. But everyday for years I'd travel past Selhurst Depot and see more MU's than I can count.

Everyone brace your wallets for impact!

I just happened to be looking at the Accurascale site and saw these. Got my order in as I need something for my Freightliner wagons. Looking forward to these 66's.

I really enjoy this thread. As someone who moved to the area it captures the place really well. I enjoy all the archive hunting and documenting of various workings, it’s great stuff.