Apparently the new Mk1 coaches in Intercity livery went on sale yesterday at Hattons, I just bought a BCK coach and the last SO they had on stock  They only have 2 BCK's left on stock. Looks like I missed out there, didn't realise they had arrived, hopefully there will be more in soon.

cheers, Stu.

Glad I noticed this thread as I have ordered 3 blue/grey SO mk1s from Hattons. Also after a search I have tracked down some Blue/grey BGs and got two from Bure Valley models at £20.83 each! Loads of really good prices on their site. No connection apart from being a pleasantly surprised customer.

Quote from: Eddie Reffin on December 11, 2015, 11:52:58 AM
Glad I noticed this thread as I have ordered 3 blue/grey SO mk1s from Hattons. Also after a search I have tracked down some Blue/grey BGs and got two from Bure Valley models at £20.83 each! Loads of really good prices on their site. No connection apart from being a pleasantly surprised customer.

Thank you! Just had a look on their website & they have some Mk1 SO coaches in Intercity livery on stock!

cheers, Stu.

Quote from: Arrachogaidh on December 11, 2015, 01:44:24 PM

Quote from: Ben A on November 22, 2015, 04:11:54 PM
My experience has always been that there is an expectation of a minimum order of at least 1000.

So that would help the case for the Class 21/29 I hope?

I think that we are talking a little at cross purposes here - both Ben and Dave are correct for different reasons.  Dave is correct that you can commission in theory as low a number as you want, but in practice most of the factories don't want to do small runs (less than 1000 as Ben says).

The killer is not actually the production run number but the tooling costs and what that cost will be amortised over.  If you are doing something potentially risky then you've either got to split the tooling cost across the first (and possibly only) run or be prepared to sink cash into tooling for the long term. If you split the tooling cost only over one run then obviously the smaller the production run the higher the unit costs and therefore the retail cost of each model.

As someone said to me when asked the minimum order number - one but it will cost you the best part of 100k (for a loco) and the next 999 will be free to 100.

So yes smaller runs are possible but there is a cost. You can reasonably estimate that a halving of production run would add 66% on to the retail price (if I did my back of a fag packet sums correctly). So then it becomes a question of how much would people be prepared to pay?

Cheers, Mike

Quote from: Arrachogaidh on December 12, 2015, 01:42:59 AM

Quote from: red_death on December 11, 2015, 02:03:09 PM
If you split the tooling cost only over one run then obviously the smaller the production run the higher the unit costs and therefore the retail cost of each model.

So yes smaller runs are possible but there is a cost. You can reasonably estimate that a halving of production run would add 66% on to the retail price (if I did my back of a fag packet sums correctly). So then it becomes a question of how much would people be prepared to pay?

Cheers, Mike

Perhaps it may be a cost worth paying if no other option of obtaining a Class 21/29 exists in N Gauge..............

Unfortunately I'd have to count myself out - I've registered an interest on a Rule 1 basis and would be prepared to pay something in the same ballpark as RRP for a commercial RTR loco, but if we're suddenly talking over 200 quid for a single locomotive then nope, just can't justify it.

Just a quick update to say that the BGs arrived this morning. 24hrs from Norwich to Inverness at this time of year. Fantastic service.

INTER-CITY SO and BCK and weed killer tanks arrived today all great models

got the weed killer coaches and class 20's today great models but the roof gry on the 20's is to dark

now after a bit more research i have found some pics with the dark grey roof

According to their website today, Farish have had delivery within the last thirty days of just about everything current in the range!
Martyn

Quote from: martyn on March 07, 2016, 08:58:10 PM
According to their website today, Farish have had delivery within the last thirty days of just about everything current in the range!
Martyn

Where on their website?

Thanks,

John P

John,

Quote from: jpendle on March 07, 2016, 09:52:31 PM
Where on their website?

Thanks,

John P

See:
http://www.bachmann.co.uk/new_arrivals.php?prod_selected=1
or go to:
http://www.bachmann.co.uk/
then 'Latest Arrivals' then 'N Scale Products'

Regards,
Neil

It is on the 'latest arrivals' page of Bachmann's website;
http://bachmann.co.uk/new_arrivals.php?prod_selected=1
Martyn

Well.. Call me cynical.. but that seems like a good way to increase the RRP on every item that Bachmann have in their warehouse. Which means that models produced at last years prices are now going to be sold at a higher price.

Cheers
Mark

I'm quite sure Farish wouldn't do that to their loyal and long suffering followers, Mark
What's that oinker doing hovering above my garage?