Quote from: georgehgv on July 16, 2014, 02:48:02 PM
Pillow talk ? Not that exciting it is only a catalogue full of maybes, somewhens and hopes

To be fair, as has been mentioned previously they have thus far only withdrawn a few planned models and then for sensible reasons of duplication when Dapol have sneaked in and got models like the Ivatt Tank, 9F and Pannier out first.

Otherwise everything does tend to get delivered eventually...

Regards

Roy

Quote from: georgehgv on July 16, 2014, 02:48:02 PM
maybes, somewhens and hopes

Sounds exactly like pillow talk to me.... 

In amongst all the froth are we forgetting the following-

Graham Hubbard said (and this has been confirmed by RMWeb's andy Y, Railway Modeller and MRE Mag's rep at least)

THREE new tooling items in OO and three new tooling items in N.   

This could be a wagon, a building and a new set of figures.........

Les

how many more go to sleeps is it now??

Quote from: georgehgv on July 16, 2014, 02:48:02 PM
Pillow talk ? Not that exciting it is only  full of maybes, somewhens and hopes

''what you been doing at work to-day love?'' - ''well if your lips are closed - i'll show you what I can close !''

alan 

Quote from: Les1952 on July 16, 2014, 07:20:01 PM
In amongst all the froth are we forgetting the following-

Graham Hubbard said (and this has been confirmed by RMWeb's andy Y, Railway Modeller and MRE Mag's rep at least)

THREE new tooling items in OO and three new tooling items in N.   

This could be a wagon, a building and a new set of figures.........

Les

Very true, but it would be a bit of a poor show given the fuss about it being an anniversary year...

Will the catalogue come out on time, I wonder?

Quote from: newportnobby on July 16, 2014, 09:57:03 PM
Will the catalogue come out on time, I wonder?

The catalogue seems to be the one thing that is always ready when promised; even if the items within are either not yet available or sold out

That is so true!!

Cheers
Mark

As someone has already mentioned, I would be extremely happy with a retooled 94xx - 

Barry

My guess is that a shrunken class 40 is a racing certainty. Thompson coaches look like a good bet too. I'm not sure what the third new tooling will be, but from various hints floating around I'm also guessing that there will be new model(s) available almost immediately. LMS twins perhaps?

Cheers
Dave

optimism mode on....

It's their anniversary, something new and cool must be almost ready for release

optimism mode off

Having had few carrots about what they are supposed to be doing in OO waved in front of me the N gauge releases could literally be anything! Im not really sure if theres a dead cert for sunday! of course I might be completely wrong!

Richard

Quote from: B757-236GT on July 17, 2014, 09:53:38 PM
Having had few carrots about what they are supposed to be doing in OO waved in front of me the N gauge releases could literally be anything! Im not really sure if theres a dead cert for sunday! of course I might be completely wrong!

Richard

Agreed... that's why I said racing cert. Maybe I'm about to loose my shirt again

Cheers
Dave

I agree, it is impossible to call (but it is great fun to guess).

A re-tooled Peak seems like a good bet - popular class with lots of possible variants and seen across much of the network.

There are a vast number of possibilities for a new steam locomotive.  Looking at last year's catalogue there are plenty of LMS, LNER and BR Standard classes but not much Southern or GWR.  If it were my choice I'd be looking at something that would sit between the 64xx Pannier and the Castle class.  Dapol pretty much has the GWR 4-6-0 sewn up with the Grange, Manor and Hall, there might be a market for a Graham Farish Modified Hall Class (I know I'd buy one) and Bachman has a OO gauge modified Hall that could be scaled down.  But I think a re-tooled large Prarie such as the 61xx has more sales potential and would be a better fit with the other GWR outline models that have been announced (both from Farish and from Dapol).  Or, as an outside bet, maybe Graham Farish will do a GWR 43xx 2-6-0, which would be a nice follow up to the Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0 and Southern N class 2-6-0s.

If a new Southern steam locomotive is planned I wonder if Bachmann would scale down the E4 tank engine?  To my mind it looks like a nice fit with the other Southern models that are in the pipeline (admittedly Southern stuff isn't my area of expertise).

There are other possibilities which people have suggested, such as an updated LMS Crab or 8F which I wouldn't rule out either.  But given the enduring popularity of the GWR/Western Region I think I'd want to have more than two GWR models in the Graham Farish catalogue if I were calling the shots at Barwell.