Bachmanns winter 2020/21 release schedule

[Newportnobby]

When ordering my black Shark (as opposed to a great white) my finger slipped and there'll be a couple of Mermaids on the order.

[bridgiesimon]

JIA wagons look good though I think the heavily weathered ones do not look very good, they seem to be too heavily weathered compared to piccies of the real things. Also very hopeful with these coming out that they will follow on and do the earlier PBA china clay tiger wagons as well, fingers crossed!!

Best wishes
Simon

[njee20]

Agreed, the OO gauge ones were criticised for being too heavily weathered, and I totally agree. The real ones are brown, but the Imerys lettering is generally still highly visible, whilst the model is just black with some streaking! It's bizarre, as Mercig did the master, and everything I've seen from him is exceptional - the silver bullet springs to mind as an obvious comparator.

Eminent modeller Mike Buick helped me with my 3D print, and he painted one up to test, I think he got the colours much more accurate:

Untitled by njee20, on Flickr

[Trainfish]

Now, let's hear them announce the shrinkray has been used on the class 117.

I'll drink to that!!!

Me too but then again I'll drink to anything 

[Nev S]

Personally I'm not a fan of factory weathering. The first Dapol weathered blue Hymeks looked like they had been driven through a muddy puddle. The westerns were basically just covered with a wash of grey/black, whereas in practice, apart from the roof, they were usually clean with faded paint to varying degrees, including previous paint layers showing through in the most extreme examples. I fancy Osbornes forthcoming Western Enterprise but I'm waiting to see the actual finished item, rather than the pre production sample.

[njee20]

Farish are guilty of often just applying a waft of brown to everything which I dislike, very rarely does anything weather in that way. Dapol are better IMO, generally getting a high quality master from someone like Mercig for them to copy. The silver bullets I think are superb.

Bachmann can get it right - the OO gauge 450 has a faded roof and looks quite prototypical. I'm trying to think of a good N gauge model though!

[Steven B]

The Dapol's factory weathered models go from the sublime Silver bullets, through the very good class 22s to the ridiculous - just about most of their basic wagons.

The only other one that stands out to me is the EFE Class 17.

Steven B.

[N_GaugeModeller]

Just had an email from Rails of Sheffield to say that some of the items from the Winter 2021 list are arriving this week, only a few of the buildings as far as N-Gauge is concerned, so no Class 31's yet sound or otherwise.

Where's the rest of the items from the Autumn 2020 I recon the boat sank 

NGM

[portland-docks]

Just had an email from Rails of Sheffield to say that some of the items from the Winter 2021 list are arriving this week, only a few of the buildings as far as N-Gauge is concerned, so no Class 31's yet sound or otherwise.

Where's the rest of the items from the Autumn 2020 I recon the boat sank 

NGM

What about the 8fs?

[N_GaugeModeller]

Exactly.

[portland-docks]

Exactly.

🤔

[N_GaugeModeller]

Ditto

Unless you are suggesting the 8F's are here already, other than the one Railway Modeller has and that don't count.

[njee20]

Why all the inferences to something nefarious going on? The 8Fs just aren't here yet. Due in the next couple of weeks... 

[N_GaugeModeller]

We were just pointing out the error in their announcement that we will only announce items arriving in the next 3 months then have stuff they announced for the next quarter arrive before most of the stuff they announced for the last quarter.

Yes I know it's not the end of the world, they will get here eventually, we should all get a life, there is no conspiracy etc etc, there I said it all for you.

Bye

[njee20]

I've no idea what I've done to upset you, perhaps let me or the mods know, rather than the constant silly comments. I've never said any of those things, nor was I about to.

It would have been nice to have got all the autumn stuff out prior to the winter announcement - but they've specifically said the 8Fs were delayed, they got the mk2 coaches and HKAs out. They're due literally in the next couple of weeks.