John Ayrey are now listing 4 new bus models in N. This comes from Kevin Ellis's Model Bus. Zone siite


"Four models have been listed on the John Ayrey site, all have provisional release dates of June 2014.
NAN001 Southdown N.B.C. - Leyland Atlantean Park Royal
NAN002 East Yorkshire N.B.C. - Leyland Atlantean Park Royal
NB001 National Travel North East - Duple Dominant  II Coach
NB002 Green Line (route 700 Windsor) - Duple Dominant  II Coach

Only the Green Line model has been illustrated so far and is the first N scale model I've seen to feature driving mirrors!"

I'd be very interested in the Southdown NBC version, as it'll replace my Farish underscale London Country dual door Park Royal version.
Even more so if the model displays a Portsmouth area route number!

Ooh that looks good

Never hear of B-T Models before though, are they new?


Paul

BT is the new name for Base Toys, which have been making 4mm vehicles for a while.

Quote from: Sprintex on May 26, 2014, 08:44:04 AM
Ooh that looks good

Never hear of B-T Models before though, are they new?


Paul

Paul Choose the BT Models tab from the browse catalogue page. The N items are at the bottom of page 1 and the top of page 2.

http://www.ayrey.co.uk/startframe.html

Some new trucks too such as Leyland FG engineers crewbus as already in the 00 range.

Interesting I have been in contact with John Ayrey about the apparent stall in this range. So I am glad more is coming. I would not expect much to turn up yet, the first bus will be close as it has a picture. Look at the list and still several items say 2013.

Yet more fine additions to my London Country fleet!

Quote from: Sprintex on May 26, 2014, 08:44:04 AM
Ooh that looks good

Never hear of B-T Models before though, are they new?


Paul

They have a range of N gauge lorries but most belong to my era (late 50's to early 70's) not for youse "modern folk"..

Jerry

I have been advised that some of the missing items from last year are on route, the buses are 5-6 weeks away and the rest of the new stuff due over the coming 5-6 months.

Great, I have quite a few Lorries and they are really nice.   I'll be adding some buses to my layout now. I hope they release some 70's & 80's cars sometime too.

Jamie

I wish someone would do a few pre-war buses though. That's WWII by the way.  Does anyone know of any? I can only find the Bedford OB and that's a tad modern for me.

PD Marsh do a pre-war Bedford

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/P-D-Marsh-N-Gauge-Scale-E35-Bedford-WLB-singledeck-bus-/370104941657?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item562bf93c59

I'm getting the east Yorkshire atlantean then....


tim

all 4 buses are now illustrated on http://www.ayrey.co.uk/startframe.html

The Southdown Atlantean/Park Royal bus (see page 2) appears in plain NBC green, registration LCD 43P (bus no. 743).

It entered service in 1975, one of six (742-47) supplied with black window gaskets, the other 41 (701-41) entered service in 1974 having grey window gaskets (source: Southdown - Volume 2: the details by Colin Morris (Venture Publications, 1994))

The model's photographed from the offside and rear and has route number X16, the former "Solenteer" limited stop service between Southsea South Parade Pier and Southampton.

That's perfect for my Fisherlea layout  - it remains to be seen if the front destination's going to be Southsea or Southampton.

Having said that, the details look as though they've been copied from the Britbus OO version http://www.britishmodelbuses.com/LargeImages/Britbus/AN1-01_Leyland%20AN68%20Atlantean_Southdown_Final_Large.jpg
so the destination on the N scale version could be Southsea, after all. 

I've just looked at the Model Bus Zone website about the buses' releases, it says:
"The Leyland Atlantean models are scaled down versions of the 1/76 scale Britbus models AN1-01 & AN1-12"
http://www.modelbuszone.co.uk/mbz_news/mbz_news.htm