Quote from: Bigmac on Today at 05:59:07 PMi still cant understand why the larger n gauge manufacturers dont go all in for a really sure fire popular model that hasnt been produced before. IN my case it would be ex lms princess, or a patriot.  Ex GW would be King or county. Southern would be a Nelson. I dont model eastern region.
Of these i think a King produced in high volume and attractively priced would be a world wide best seller.

The King has actually been produced already as a RTR model, it was one of the last of the Poole produced designs, but after takeover by Bachmann a further improved run was done from what was essentially the same tooling.

A new tool King was mooted by DJM, but never got beyond a CAD, it was proposed again by KR Models as a first venture into N, but again never seemed to gain that much traction in terms of interest (maybe partly at least because it wasn't seemingly all that well promoted) so I would (personal opinion only) be very surprised to see one produced anytime soon.

I won't go over what has already been said about production quantities again because it has already been explained why quantities are decided at the way they are, and why producing a higher volumes doesn't work for the N market, which although the second most popular scale in the UK after OO is obviously nowhere near as big.

Regards

Roy

Quote from: Moonglum on Today at 07:01:22 PMJust found the track by Johnny Cash that I was thinking of...

Tim

Yep - it's a brilliant cover of the song and somehow changes the message too.

You could ask here: http://www.tri-ang.co.uk/

Jan

Never fails to give me goosebumps.........

And here's the LC track I was thinking of.......

Just found the track by Johnny Cash that I was thinking of...


Tim

Quote from: Newportnobby on Today at 06:23:15 PMOh no, please don't start another wish list thread

"The list of classes of loco not yet produced is getting smaller along with the size of those classes. The chances of getting 'one offs' such as 'Lion', 'Kestrel' etc are virtually nil."

you never know--one might just take notice.

Oh no, please don't start another wish list thread

Quote from: Moonglum on Today at 05:41:10 PMYep, I like that - just checked out his credentials, quite a pedigree! Slight hint of Johnny Cash?

Tim

Yup, and maybe an old Leonard Cohen 

i still cant understand why the larger n gauge manufacturers dont go all in for a really sure fire popular model that hasnt been produced before. IN my case it would be ex lms princess, or a patriot.  Ex GW would be King or county. Southern would be a Nelson. I dont model eastern region.
Of these i think a King produced in high volume and attractively priced would be a world wide best seller.