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On 01/06/2021 at 21:54, Captain Electra said:

I've ordered one, myself despite also succumbing to a GWR set, which has been used for developing the ElectraRail vinyls for the Class 802 TransPennine Nova1 (Now on sale via the Electra Website).

Wow, Just wow. Were those vinyl's applied directly, or did you remove the GWR Green paint first ?

47 minutes ago, Chris M said:

Picked mine up today. The packaging is excellent in a very nice case. Very classy.

She runs very quietly and smoothly as you would expect from Kato. Good slow running and a high top speed straight out of the box. The whole train looks right to me and I think the colour is good. The motor is in the car just behind one of the power cars. I ran mine in both directions and it is was fine even when pushing most of the train. The coaches are very free running. I can’t comment on Minimum radius as my tightest curve is just on length of Peco R3. It runs fine through Peco points.
 

I will be gently weathering the white and silver roofs and also the white coach ends. Yes these items are white when the real things leave the factory but they soon get grimy out on the road. I’m happy with the sides and front being shiny as that’s they way they are most (if not all) of the time.

 

I’m very satisfied with this purchase and the price makes it excellent value for money.

 

 

 

 

 

Nice, Are these few images representing Starcross/Dawlish/Dawlish Warren area by any chance ? (Nice Class 52 btw, I have one in Green)

On the topic of minimum radius for the Class 800, as well as the comment above re getting round tighter radii curves, but at slower speed, there is something else to take into consideration: Coach Length, Angles, and the distance between the bogies on each coach

As mentioned above, I use Unitrack. As an example as to what I'm talking about: My tightest curve is R183. Mk2 coaches and my Class 37 go round just fine. Class 43's have no issues themselves, but put Mk3 coaches on it, and they can bump into rolling stock on the next less tight curve (R216). Cue needing the n gauge RAIB...

I'll probably try it on R249 (The next Radii down from 282 with Unitrack), but I doubt it would work safely on R216 (I do not want to have to call the n gauge RAIB yet again!!). I'm sure all this could be worked out mathematically as to minimum clearance if someone was so inclined.

Iain

I'd agree that best UK place is indeed Train Trax. In my experience they've always had plenty of stock