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23 hours ago, charliepetty said:

Livery samples should be at Glasgow & Model World live at the NEC !!!

Looks amazing with with a bit of colour! Looking forward to receiving a few of these in various liveries...

If I didn't mention a couple of inaccuracies now, I'd have to forever hold my peace and that would irritate me with it being an amazing looking model! The colour matching on the 156 seem to be better than on the 142, will those be used on the release instead? Also on the logo, the blue portion of the logo is a bit too light - and the N doesn't look as bright as it should, but that may be the camera/lighting (you got it right on the 156, for reference). 😅

Updated Lumo livery as shown in the catalogue. 

Yeah, it's 803005 which carries the Stephenson's Works bicentenary vinyls.

The details on the side are on the front page of Lumo's website, "lumo is proudly from Newcastle" "lumo is a net-zero champion" "lumo is all electric" etc, also of note is the large luggage stickers advising passengers of where to put their luggage for different destinations.

Good call by Hornby, however I reckon this may have been at Lumo's request.

Something else to note in the 2024 catalogue is the missing upcoming LNER Azuma pack, only the extension pack is featured (which isn't compatible with previous releases if Hornby have binned it off!).

Just scrolling through Realtrack's website and noticed several new pre-orders coming soon for 143s and 144s. 143s in GWR and Regional Railways liveries, and 144s in WYPTE red/cream and unbranded Northern (Serco-Abellio) liveries.

Apologies if it's already been announced ages ago!

Agreed, it's something I've been looking forward to... but that sample just looks nasty. Definitely a no from me if its released in that state.

When smaller companies like Accurascale manage to colour match and apply the livery correctly (and if I recall correctly, took a few attempts to do so at their Mk5s), it's always disappointing to see the usual lack of attention to detail on Hornby's models, especially on liveries like this where the original artwork, the trains themselves, photos online, and also customer feedback are all in abundance... 😐

2 hours ago, Covkid said:

I guess you mean "aren't" ?

AFAIK Dapol have listed every livery they carried apart from a couple of one-off advertising specials in the West Mids. 

 

I wonder if the "mood lighting" fitted to one of them possibly 323204 ? was ever extended to the rest of the prototype fleet.  

Northern Rail blue and purple (Serco-Abellio era) is missing, I'd have rather have had that than former FNW! 

10 hours ago, Legend said:

 

Interesting . Wasn't even aware it had changed and a quick look at the picture I would probably have dismissed these as reflections or trick of light . 

Not many photos of the adaptions out yet, seems to have just happened over the past few days. 803003 has had the new stickers since it received Pride livery though. There's also new luggage guide stickers on all the units next to the doors.

Hornby selected 803003 as their model, so I wonder if a renumbering is on the cards if they choose to use the revised livery (as carried by 803001 so far).

Photo by Martyn Hilbert on Flickr.

Perhaps the further delay in the Lumo 803 will see the model receiving the adapted livery? Note the silver and blue shapes on the nose, the front logo, and "lumo is proudly from Newcastle" replacing "Travel Well, Beyond Expectations"...

Avanti managed to blag their slightly revised livery on to the 390 model... 😅

Photo by Paul Biggs on Flickr. 

On 31/07/2023 at 17:50, Red Devil said:

The models have now been ordered, and will be delivered before the year end. We have a quota of 100, 20 being non motored. Members of the TLRS will be eligible to a discount when renewing their membership for 2024 in November. The cost of these models will be finalised in due coarse, and will be delivered from the UK.

I dropped the address an email the other week, hopefully there's still some availability to place an order as I haven't heard back? 🙂

All the Northern Rail livery variations pre-2006 🤣

Would love to see Northern Spirit though, to get rid of the Lima version!

1 hour ago, TomScrut said:

Looks like LNER are doing a pride liveried one too called "Together". Hornby might be doing that and/or the "Century" one next year? Not that I need another Azuma but it would be nice to see the unique ones done.

Hopefully they do - and that the destinations aren't anything silly like "Carlisle via Watford Junction" 🤣

3 minutes ago, Jim76 said:

Looking good Charlie Are these available to pre-order?

https://realtrackmodels.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=91

GMPTE, chocolate/cream, provincial and Northern Rail are available to order.

10 hours ago, charliepetty said:

 

As promised, hopefully this explains it a bit better and is of use to you.

8 hours ago, charliepetty said:

When I'm back home later, I'll explain what I mean better with the help of Photoshop. ☺️

9 hours ago, charliepetty said:

More pictures of samples re the Strathclyde & Northern Units on this current run, due 1st quarter 2023

Apologies if I've picked this up too late, on the Serco/Abellio livery, the Northern "N" oval should be aligned horizontally with the "northern" text. I think the "N" within the oval is also lighter in real life too.

Apart from my minor observations, I'm really looking forward to these. Just a shame that I couldn't wait back in 2020 and ended up buying the Rainbow Railways versions instead 🤣

The year and a half since I ordered a rake has flown by! Not yet got my invoice for pack 1, I assume they're being sent out over time?

Does seem a bit worrying that they're struggling to fulfil historic pre-orders... it's not giving me much hope for the two Azumas I have on order. 

I'm having issues getting onto the Realtrack website, but very tempted to get one of these modded 156s.

Tempted to sell my repainted Northern 156 and put in an order for this one, is it too late to order at the discounted price mentioned earlier in the thread?

I had an order for the Avanti Pride Pendolino, LNER Mk4 rake and 60095 from Hattons, ordered it straight after the announcement. All cancelled apart from the 5 extra coaches for the Pendolino. 

I tried ordering via a local shop but they said they'd reached their allocation for all items, so I ended up going for TMC.