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The first test prints for the ‘Humorist’ and ‘Coronach’ smoke boxes were a bit of a failure; a combination of design and printing issues. The second test have arrived and look much better. They're being trial fitted to Hornby’s ‘Book Law’ model.

We hope to have the kit out to complement our ACFI kit within a few weeks.

Update on the plough.

Back in November we had the pleasure to meet Brian Blundell, the owner of plough 18, at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and was allowed access to the preserved plough to photograph and take measurements. These were fed back to our CAD designer and this weekend we received the completed CAD files for the model. Attached are several screen shots for you to view. Renders of each plough in the three liveries will be completed and will be posted up on our Facebook page shortly.

With this being our first venture into RTR models, we’d initially intended to dip our toe into the market with a limited run of 135 models. However, the response from the Expression of Interest has been incredible with more than twice this number of emails received. We are therefore looking at increasing the production run to meet this demand.

The model will be released in North Eastern Indian Red, LNER Engineering Blue, and British Rail black liveries. With all three ploughs represented in each livery.

We will release the pre-order scheme in the spring once we’ve firmed up manufacturing costs and confirmed the price. At present we anticipate it will be in the region of £45 per model, with a release date in late summer.

To register your interest in the Snowplough and be kept up to date with developments of this and other models, please email us at Niumodels@gmail.com

1 hour ago, Rockalaucher101 said:

 

I don't suppose you have made any further progress on the artuculated teaks or has that project been shelved?

It's on hold at the moment. I'll probably get back to it after Glasgow.

3 minutes ago, D9001 said:

Any progress on the 60813 deflectors/chimney?

No. We're still working on the Humorist and Coronach smokeboxes. It's taking a bit longer then anticipated.

5 hours ago, enginelane said:

Looking forward to seeing the layout in action at Wakefield 2020. it will be exhibited with Overlord so a bit of a Military theme going on 

Its been I while since I last saw Overlord. It will be good to see it again. 

I was up at Pickering, on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway this week with the real plough 18. 

A very enjoyable few hours taking photos and checking dimensions against our model.

It was a pleasure to meet Bryan Blundell, who owns plough. We had a good chat about the plough history and reminisced about our shared railway past. A big thanks to Bryan for allowing access. 

I also managed access to the Gresley engineering coach to get a colour match on the blue paint. 

On 02/11/2019 at 11:14, Dominion said:

Niumodels are planning an NE snowplough. Taking expressions of interest at niumodels@gmail.com and there are more details in the topic on

 

Thanks for the mention.

The NER Plough is the first of several LNER RTR models we have in the development pipeline and hope to bring to fruition over the next few years. These will complement our growing range of LNER conversions kits.

Having overcome the initial email address problems, we like to thank everyone how emailed us and expressed an interest in the NER snowplough model. All names are recorded on our mailing list and we will issue out update emails on the plough and other models we have in development as thing progress. 

If all goes to plan we expect to open the pre-order scheme in early spring next year, with an anticipated release date in the summer.

Thanks.  

6 hours ago, MarkC said:

Hi Mick

 

I think that the email should have read

 

Niumodels@gmail.com 

 

(Obviously a silent 'g' :p )

 

Mark

Thanks. corrected now.

The model will be available in three liveries; North Eastern Indian Red, LNER Engineering Blue, and British Rail Black.

It will be produced in a limited run of 135 models across the three liveries with an expected release date of Summer 2020....

The retail price will be confirmed when the pre-order scheme is opened in early 2020.

To register your interest in the Snowplough and be kept up to date with developments of this and other Niu Models locomotives, please email us at Niumodels@gmail.com

Snowploughs Nos 18, 19 & 20 were built in 1909 by York Carriage & Wagon Works for the North Eastern Railway. Ploughs No.18 & 20 were assigned to Shildon, near Darlington, while Plough No. 19 assigned to Tweedsmouth at Berwick.

While under BR ownership, Plough 18, at that time in BR Livery and carrying the number 900572, featured in the 1955 BTF Film 'Snowdrift at Bleath Gill' where it can be seen in conjunction with Plough 23 (BR Number 900577), rescuing BR Standard Class 2 No. 78018 from a snowdrift.

Plough 19 remained at Tweedmouth until 1957 when it was withdrawn from service and scrapped. Plough 18 & 20 were reassigned to Gatehead in 1964 were they saw out the remainder until 1973 when they were retired and both were bought privately for preservation. Plough 18 now resides at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, while Plough 20 is housed at the Beamish Museum.

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Niu Models has announced the production of an OO Gauge ready-to-run model of an NER - LNER Independent Snowplough scheduled for release Summer 2020 Spring 2021 (delayed due to Covid-19 impact)