Just to balance it all up, I have had several orders sorted by Railtec, never had a significant issues. this includes a couple which were rescaling as well as standard stock items and special orders for name and number plates, the most recent arrived yesterday as a class 73 numbers and plates with my wife's name.
Excellent service and superb quality every time.

Best wishes
Simon

I'm with @njee20 . I've never had a reply to any of my downsize requests.

John P

It's and interesting technique, might be worth a shot. I'd worry I'd get what i actually ordered

Quote from: RailGooner on April 01, 2026, 04:17:34 PMScott, there's still time to join the eejits duking it out for this one:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267623631039

I saw that!  What's driving that price?

Seems to be super hit and miss, I've never had an acknowledgement of a request to resize anything! I like the idea of ordering in OO though, I may try that.

I find it really surprising that Farish did the 60 (and now the 20) before the 37 got an upgrade. It's a decent model IMO, but crying out for a sound option.

Scott, there's still time to join the eejits duking it out for this one:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267623631039

One of the Clacton area group has a sound 37 with a file by Kevin at Coastal dcc.

Don't know how much it cost him, but about the best diesel sounds I've heard.

Martyn

Quote from: msr on April 01, 2026, 02:36:02 PMPaul Hickman @DELTICNAPIER does a terrific job of fitting DCC sound to Farish 37s. He often lists them for sale on eBay but if you already have a favourite then he'll convert that for you.

He surely does. My dilemma: lack of unlimited funds. Nearly $500 to get one of those to show up on my doorstep. 

They do sound awesome, though.

Quote from: eddief83 on April 01, 2026, 01:30:49 PMIf a class 20 is viable for sound then a class 37 surely is. Just a case of when, the lack of models available suggests its in the works. It must be 3 or 4 years since the last run, just a shame it wasn't done before the cut back in production - see the way 90's and 47's flooded the market.

I do actually have a sound fitted Farish 37, a conversion that was worked on a couple of times by different people. It now has a Jamie Goodman sound file in it, and it sounds lovely, but I'd still like another in early BR green with split headcode boxes.

I think it is a pretty fair bet that either a chassis "upgrade" or a full retool are in the works somewhere as far as the Farish 37 is concerned. To be honest, I am slightly surprised that it was the 20 upgrade that was recently announced rather than one. Maybe they are saving it for TINGS (well here's hoping).