Hope at least the push pull set gets done...

Quote from: class8mikado on Yesterday at 10:28:36 AMHope at least the push pull set gets done...

If they are already 80% there and magazines with ads promoting the coaches (including the NGS Journal) have only just landed on people's doormats I would be cautiously optimistic that the minimum quantity required to make the whole project viable will be achieved including the push-pull coaches.

With the success of the Gresley BG and refurbed Buffet already achieved, it does leave me pondering whether we might at some point see some other similarly marginal projects promoted in a similar way going forward.

Roy

It also means there's no discount from the box shifters

Quote from: Newportnobby on Yesterday at 11:41:39 AMIt also means there's no discount from the box shifters

True, but also no dealer margin to factor in to pricing where sold direct.

To be honest on the face of it that may look like a good thing and is certainly a way of bringing a more "marginal" model to market, but in terms of supporting a network of model shops it does nothing, so I hope it is used selectively. I also hope that it means the tooling can be used for subsequent runs made available to their dealer network.

Roy

I'd like to think that, paying £40 for a coach, any left unsold are not discounted as, having supported both projects from the get go, I'd be seriously brassed off

Quote from: Stuart Down Under on Yesterday at 12:45:37 AM

Quote from: Newportnobby on January 27, 2026, 01:56:55 PMThanks for that. I don't do Facebook. Perhaps they could update their own website

People that "do" Facebook don't realise that many of us don't. They should certainly have a progress line at the top of the "expression of interest" page. It would probably accelerate progress. If it's gone from 50% to 80% in a month, they should get there or thereabouts by March...

As someone who mostly uses this branch of the NGF but also, to a lesser extent, "does" the FaceBook branch, albeit sticking to only certain well moderated groups and avoiding the general melee, it is quiet noticeable how the NGF community is largely split into two separate "sections" with the overlapping portion of the venn diagram being relatively small....

Anyhoo, getting back to the topic, I do suspect we will get there on this project. In fact to some extent I might even welcome the possibility of a slight delay as I have so much on pre-order here and there right now that the prospect of it all coming in at once is slightly concerning...  .