What you think of the EMU and will you be getting one?
There are now pictures of the 350 on the Farish website. It looks to be almost on a par with the 4mm version (which is excellent) and should be a winner.
Will I get one? Well, it's a lot more modern than my preferred era (late 80s sectorisation) but the grey/blue version could ALMOST be BR, so who knows? There could be some mileage in doing some alternative vinyls, such as SWT, First Great Eastern and Heathrow Connect if I can get a non-gangwayed end produced.
Not sure - it does look good but want a SWT version, which would be the 450 (from a discussion on another post). The destination boards would probably need to be Waterloo. Wonder why they went with Silverlink and not SWT?
Incidentally, a white Desiro, named 'Destination Weymouth', was on the Portsmouth line today - it seemed all wrong.
I will definitely be getting at least one (if not more) - it looks superb. In fact I restrained myself from buying a 4CEP at the weekend so I would have more pennies for the Desiro!
I suspect the 450 is only a matter of time as there are not too many changes to make, but I can understand going for WCML 350s (wide range of operation and slightly more liveries than just SWT (but only just!).
M
Quote from: red_death on November 22, 2011, 11:32:55 AM
I will definitely be getting at least one (if not more) - it looks superb.
Even more tempted now! But I will have to restrain myself from buying any more until the SWT version or a Southern Electrostar or a Pendolino comes out. I just love those 'new fangled brightly coloured worms' (as someone said on another post)
Hattons have the N scale at £122 but the OOs are £106 - why? Have the Ns got interior coach lighting as well?
Hattons operate dynamic pricing.
Anyway there is no logic which says N should be cheaper as miniaturisation can often make things more expensive.
M
Quote from: red_death on November 22, 2011, 05:38:03 PM
Hattons operate dynamic pricing.
Anyway there is no logic which says N should be cheaper as miniaturisation can often make things more expensive.
M
Not much for plastic mouldings, die cast blocks or for shipping. Volume dominates pricing (plus the 'as much as you can get away with' factor). I suspect if N and OO were equal volume N would be way cheaper, but it's not so they get less units to spread the high setup and tooling cost over.
I'll end up getting one at some point for a repaint into SWT Blue as a 450, or I might get Mercig to do one for me :thumbsup:.