Quelle surprise!, Rails are now dangling an OO model ......So that's only the Metrovick left of UK gas turbine locos, without a RTR OO model. Anyone prepared to bet against that being announced within the next two or three years?
Due November apparently...Out now should be the 51xx Large Prairie by Dapol at £119.60 which looks a competent effort so no doubt we will get more in fo in due course
And looks like it is going to be available at month end by dealer reports. I am interested in any member reports, particularly relating to mechanism construction and performance, against the day that Dapol might chance on a 'black' steam loco from the LNER group.Due November apparently...
It has gone on sale. No one here bought one? Looks much like a large Prairie based on photos. I have a feeling that combining the best aspects of the Dapol and Hornby models would produce something very close to accurately representing the prototype...Out now should be the 51xx Large Prairie by Dapol ...
I have always been picky in respect of 'just doesn't look right'; and that's the smell given off by this one; on the basis of the photographic evidence currently available.... the 812 remains interesting but 34C are we getting picky? given we had nothing before...
Novelty is all and only what that is about....I find this frustrating and nice but odd that the Double Fairlie gets such attention when there were 4 of them?...
The V2 like the 812 and Improved Precedents is caught up in the global shipping chaos / lack of lorry drivers to shift containers from UK ports. Quite how they pulled the Fairlie through that unless they were all airfreighted is a mystery - the box of mine is date 15 Oct so they have clearly somehow been given some priority. There a fair number of versions of Fairlies that Bachmann can offer with different liveries (and detail differences) for Meriddin Emrys, Livingston Thrompson/ Talesin/Earl of Merioneth, David Lloyd George and the forthcoming James Spooner, albeit in the case of DLG the model is a scale foot short. There are hints that the 1970s modernistic Earl of Merioneth will be forthcoming. Whether the original James Spooner could be done is probably doubtful and Little Wonder was too different.Bachmann have yet to get the V2 in the hands of retailers the 812 remains interesting but 34C are we getting picky? given we had nothing before, The Precedent looks well but these did not last, the A2/2 is good so mine looks well and given the length of the loco it performs well, meanwhile Bachmans effort seems to be focuses on the double Fairlie
When the new class 47 was announced in late summer, they said it would be available before the end of the year. There's been a video review by Hornby magazine but no sign of the stock yet. Guess it's stuck in the same loop.The V2 like the 812 and Improved Precedents is caught up in the global shipping chaos / lack of lorry drivers to shift containers from UK ports.