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So in summary, Hornby has accidentally led itself into a highly accurate and customer-friendly state of affairs.

Sometimes the mistakes are the end of the road for a particular product, but since it's embarrassing, you don't hear about it unless you're one of those he's coming to for prototype information or other relevant stuff to product's development.

Thanks for everyone for the advice.

Does Farish do an eight coupled steam loco with about 10mm dia wheels ? (Potential TT conversion material.) Older is okay, as I think they look easier to regauge.

Glide effortlessly they may, but am I the only one to notice that loco 1196's pony truck looks derailed?

Don't think there was any TT at Ashford today, but a little TT3 and at the more finescale end of things, Ballyconnell Road.

If you knew the grade I got for Technical Drawing at school, you'd probably understand why I'm reliant on outfits like Shapeways😉

I've kind of lost interest because unfortunately most US producers use Shapeways and that is totally undependable now when it comes to quality, unreliable on delivery and very costly to boot, Outfits like i-materialise are more consistent but now very expensive. While this does not represent the entire sector, these two were two big participants and I see a loss of enthusiasm for 3-D compared to a few years ago. (Again, maybe that's primarily US outline.)

Shows how little I know about UK prototypes.

Is that because some GWR branchlines only used Panniers ? I think there would be a market for small branch layouts in TT. Hornby seem to have targeted primarily mainline stuff so far, but looking at TT3, most of the layouts are branches of one kind or another, and they're regular crowd pullers at shows.

I wonder if that's a subtle hint?

Cuba switched its political allegiances (and where it bought its trains) around the same time the American hobby largely abandoned TT and East Germany took it up. This makes it an interesting prototype.

I've been looking for a 3-D print of a 66 shell, as I have identified the right chassis and have two of it now.

Because a lot of people are whiny and want everything yesterday. Put them together in a group online, and there's an incentive to catastrophise, because it is also human to want attention, whether or not it is deserved.

It is not the first time they have done this. Hornby just act as a warm-up clown in what purports to be their own show, while the real actors are the Chinese factory owners and their sullen workers. It is they who decide what the final purchaser gets, and when.