I'm not surprised, doing cottage industry scale resin printing at this level of quality is frankly backbreaking, especially if it's on top of work and family. Occasional periods of burnout and disruption is inevitable. Goodness knows I've been through it!

It's one of the reasons I'm trying move forward with plastic kits, which would also solve a lot of the shortcomings of even the best resin rolling stock. My plastic aircraft kits go produced and packed from the factory straight to the fulfilment service without even crossing my doorstep. Leaving me to focus on developing new products and marketing then, and actually attempting to scale the business. It's just much more costly to get a new range started especially when you need engineering infrastructure like wheelsets, NEM sockets and couplings!

Hopefully he'll be back, these are really very good wagons. I've had a few.

It's the Bathurst 1000, and apparently 994 is never enough!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP5PVwiOoWI

Ooops.

Mark

That's hopefully the case, he did some nice stuff!

Dave

Quote from: Southerngooner on October 10, 2026, 04:43:40 PMThese now seem to have disappeared......

Dave

Hi Dave,

Won't have dissappeared....

These are all done in batches and sometimes- due to lack of time (apparently), there are none on his shelf to sell!

Phil H

The 805s must be due imminently, and the Lumo/TPE units? I can at least keep relevant with a 7-car one!

Really looks good.

Looks great, njee20!

Sounds like a bit of laziness by Kato and only doing one TOC, I'd be astounded if you could reconfigure that, and it won't be a CV. Just don't use that function I'd say!

Nearly finished my 807 after about a dozen attempts! Surprised it's not melted the number of times it's been stripped! 

It is the Zimo decoder and yes, the announcements are GWR related.

Kato provided a sound fitted version SKU during the first 9 car run...not sure if Kato factory installed it or they contracted it out. I purchased it when they first came out from a retailer in the UK, but am I am just now trying to troubleshoot it (life got in the way, you know, and frankly it's not that big of a deal).

Quote from: jpendle on October 10, 2026, 05:39:19 PMI would guess PA announcements.

That was my only thought too.
I doubt there's a CV, probably needs a different sound file loaded.

Can you confirm what decoder is fitted?  (read CV8) ?   Could it be an ESU LokSound?  Was there a factory fitted model, or have these been done by 3rd parties eg.  YouChoos , Hookstone Models, CR Signals?

 [edit] A google search has some mention of a "new batch" including DCC sound for GWR or LNER.  Google suggests ESU LokSound 5 was used.