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Having skimmed through Ebay, I found some very old Aifix plastic kits of some locos.
Thinking about this a little, and with Airfix now being owned by Hornby, would it not be possible for Airfix to produce some loco kits that could be fitted to the appropriate Hornby rolling chassis?
I would have thought that this could be a good option to produce those niche locos that Hornby itself wouldn't really want to do as they wouldn't sell enough as RTR.
Airfix though, could produce a kit of parts which once assembled could be fitted to the corresponding Hornby chassis/drive mechanism.
The correct chassis could be included as part of the kit, I'm sure that any available chassis now could be used on different models upto a point obviously.
There's always Puffer's who supply chassis kits anyway.
I just thought it might be a good cheaper way of building the loco that may never be released as a RTR.
As it's a plastic kit, it should be more attractive to those who don't have the money or are reluctant to get the soldering iron out to build a brass kit.
Would Airfix/Hornby go for it though?
Thinking about this a little, and with Airfix now being owned by Hornby, would it not be possible for Airfix to produce some loco kits that could be fitted to the appropriate Hornby rolling chassis?
I would have thought that this could be a good option to produce those niche locos that Hornby itself wouldn't really want to do as they wouldn't sell enough as RTR.
Airfix though, could produce a kit of parts which once assembled could be fitted to the corresponding Hornby chassis/drive mechanism.
The correct chassis could be included as part of the kit, I'm sure that any available chassis now could be used on different models upto a point obviously.
There's always Puffer's who supply chassis kits anyway.
I just thought it might be a good cheaper way of building the loco that may never be released as a RTR.
As it's a plastic kit, it should be more attractive to those who don't have the money or are reluctant to get the soldering iron out to build a brass kit.
Would Airfix/Hornby go for it though?