Graham Farish class 350 EMU

[Rheneas N Gauge]

What you think of the EMU and will you be getting one?

[Adam1701D]

There are now pictures of the 350 on the Farish website. It looks to be almost on a par with the 4mm version (which is excellent) and should be a winner.

Will I get one? Well, it's a lot more modern than my preferred era (late 80s sectorisation) but the grey/blue version could ALMOST be BR, so who knows? There could be some mileage in doing some alternative vinyls, such as SWT, First Great Eastern and Heathrow Connect if I can get a non-gangwayed end produced.

[Pengi]

Not sure - it does look good but want a SWT version, which would be the 450 (from a discussion on another post). The destination boards would probably need to be Waterloo. Wonder why they went with Silverlink and not SWT?

Incidentally, a white Desiro, named 'Destination Weymouth', was on the Portsmouth line today - it seemed all wrong.

[red_death]

I will definitely be getting at least one (if not more) - it looks superb.  In fact I restrained myself from buying a 4CEP at the weekend so I would have more pennies for the Desiro!

I suspect the 450 is only a matter of time as there are not too many changes to make, but I can understand going for WCML 350s (wide range of operation and slightly more liveries than just SWT (but only just!).

M

[Pengi]

I will definitely be getting at least one (if not more) - it looks superb. 

Even more tempted now! But I will have to restrain myself from buying any more until the SWT version or a Southern Electrostar or a Pendolino comes out. I just love those 'new fangled brightly coloured worms' (as someone said on another post)

[Pengi]

Hattons have the N scale at £122 but the OOs are £106 - why? Have the Ns got interior coach lighting as well?

[red_death]

Hattons operate dynamic pricing.

Anyway there is no logic which says N should be cheaper as miniaturisation can often make things more expensive.

M

[EtchedPixels]

Hattons operate dynamic pricing.

Anyway there is no logic which says N should be cheaper as miniaturisation can often make things more expensive.

M

Not much for plastic mouldings, die cast blocks or for shipping. Volume dominates pricing (plus the 'as much as you can get away with' factor). I suspect if N and OO were equal volume N would be way cheaper, but it's not so they get less units to spread the high setup and tooling cost over.

[cookiescrumble]

I'll end up getting one at some point for a repaint into SWT Blue as a 450, or I might get Mercig to do one for me  .