Martin E

We seem to be talking about the same thing. And I think I'll follow your lead and just glue the stuff back together again. A little DIY never hurt anyone, right? (Famous last words!) Nice pictures there, Summer_Saturday!

Just received 47535 and 47612, and very nice models they are. Unfortunately both had broken bogie frames, the brake gears had snapped off. This means that three out of the four Class 47:s that I've taken delivery of in the last month have been damaged. The packaging showed no sign of malhandling during shipping, so that would indicate that the frames were broken during packaging at the factory. I have written a nice e-mail to Bachmann to let them know. Hopefully I can purchase spare bogie frames from them, I don't think it would be worth the hassle to send them back to the retailer. It would be nice to have whole locos though. Sorry for being such a downer, I'll try to post someting more cheerful in the future!

That sounds only too familiar. My 47975 arrived the other day. The parcel itself looked fine, but just like in the case mentioned above, the inner plastic packaging was broken and the loco's windscreen was lying in the driver's knee, one windscreen whiper missing and detailing on one boogie broken off. Not the kind of state you would like your brand new ?? 89.90 loco to be in. Anyway, I e-mailed Bachmann that replied that they would forward my complaint to whoever handles the shipping, who in turn would get back to me with instructions. That was two days ago and I've heard nothing from them so far. Since there is no evidence of malhandling during transport, I can only assume that someone at the factory had a bad day. Apparentely I'm not alone, so beware!