A British domestic train from Kato? 800 series available from May 2021

[Neil of Teesside]

Will it come with a faulty chassis that will only come to light once you can't take it back?

[Newportnobby]

Hopefully will see mine next week then

[njee20]

God I'm not sure I can handle any more of the 'jokes' about cracks, can't they just keep the models for a few weeks until everyone's forgotten! 

[Trainfish]

Hopefully I'll receive mine soon then as long as it isn't replaced by an old HST like GWR are apparently doing down here. I've got enough of those! Sorry @njee20

[njee20]

Meh, you seen how much GWR HSTs are going for? Sell it and buy two 800s!

[Trainfish]

No I haven't but if they send me one as a replacement then I'll take your advice as I already have a full GWR set. Knowing my luck they'll probably send me a couple of buses as a replacement service though 

[Adam1701D]

I swear if I see another joke about "cracks" or comments along the lines of "oooo...the HSTs and 91s are much better than this plastic ****", I will mutter some very bad words.

Looking forward greatly to my Mini-zuma.

[woodbury22uk]

Pleased to say that I just received an invoice from Keith Blanchard at Train Trax for my GWR Class 800. Now it's paid I just need to wait patiently for the delivery process to complete. I'll need to clear a space for it, so the Kato Thalys PBA TGV is going back into its box.

[Ben A]

Hi all,

I saw this video earlier, I think this is the model running in the Kato factory shop in Tokyo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hocu3JttJ4

cheers

Ben A.

[railsquid]

Yup, that's the Kato HQ showroom, I must cycle over there again one day soon (need some parts).

According to the Kato release schedule, the GWR version (10-1671) was released on May 11th; the LNER version is next on the list.

[Newportnobby]

Looks lovely but still more GWR 'grey' than GWR 'green'
I've never seen one in the flesh, though, only on the TV series about Paddington station.

[Skyline2uk]

Hi all,

I saw this video earlier, I think this is the model running in the Kato factory shop in Tokyo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hocu3JttJ4

cheers

Ben A.

Blimey I don't much rate the camerawork of the person filming that....feel a bit queasy...

The unit looks very sleek, fine panto and good close corridor connections. However, aforementioned camerawork does the perceived running quality no favours!

Skyline2uk

[pape_timmo]

Hi all,

I saw this video earlier, I think this is the model running in the Kato factory shop in Tokyo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hocu3JttJ4

cheers

Ben A.

Blimey I don't much rate the camerawork of the person filming that....feel a bit queasy...

The unit looks very sleek, fine panto and good close corridor connections. However, aforementioned camerawork does the perceived running quality no favours!

Skyline2uk

I was going to say exactly the same thing. Hope
It runs better than it looks in this video.

Cheers, Timmo

[Shropshire Lad]

Looks lovely but still more GWR 'grey' than GWR 'green'
I've never seen one in the flesh, though, only on the TV series about Paddington station.

I see these fairly regularly and the colour looks ok  to me!
Shame they haven't replicated the visible banding where the vinyl wrap overlaps like the prototype 
Cheers Colin

[njee20]

That's the best I've seen the colour looking! It is a weird colour, incredibly variable in different lights.