Bachmann Announcements

[Newportnobby]

So far, and unusually for me, my wallet is safe from Bachmann. It's just those beggars at RevolutioN, Kato and Rapido causing it grief

[Portpatrick]

So far, and unusually for me, my wallet is safe from Bachmann. It's just those beggars at RevolutioN, Kato and Rapido causing it grief

Yes I hope to be asked for the balance of my satire 320 layer this year.  Not been following Rapido.

[jpendle]

Well at least the backlog is being worked through.

I'll be relieving them of both those new CL66 liveries. (G&W and BR Large Logo)

John P

[Newportnobby]

So far, and unusually for me, my wallet is safe from Bachmann. It's just those beggars at RevolutioN, Kato and Rapido causing it grief

Yes I hope to be asked for the balance of my satire 320 layer this year.

Is that the one with the funny livery?

Not been following Rapido.

It's the class 28 they've announced although due date is unknown.

[Portpatrick]

So far, and unusually for me, my wallet is safe from Bachmann. It's just those beggars at RevolutioN, Kato and Rapido causing it grief

Yes I hope to be asked for the balance of my satire 320 layer this year.

Is that the one with the funny livery?

Probably!  But both my layouts,  Allanbrae and the new on Cromarty are Scotland based.  Allanbrae being broadly contemporary.

Not been following Rapido.

It's the class 28 they've announced although due date is unknown.

Actually I did pick this one up.  I already have my 3D printed body from Leicester Models - I think that is what they call themselves.  Runs on a Poole 31 chassis with a 25/3 bogie at one end.  Very nice.  Purchase long rapido type couplings from Ray Evans.  But I have adapted Poole bogies to take a NEM inner pocket before.  May so so again so I can put easi shunt onto it.  If I did later sell it I could substitue a NEM based Rapido.  Easi shunts are pricey!

[Foxhound]

The Class 40 has been delayed continuously for nearly a year now and how long have those Charringtons's TTA's been awaiting for along with others mentioned. Nothing actually new on the horizon I see... we really need a set of Peaks a Class 105 DMU a retooled Class 25/3 and with EFE do the "Baby Deltic"

I just get the feeling my wallet will be getting a rest this year, can't see much this side of Summer to be honest!! :'(

I totally agree that a set of Peaks would be useful.
I am hoping they will do D11-D15 as new with split headcode boxes and connecting doors (the notorious D14 preferred!), D16 onwards with split headcode boxes (BR blue as 45053 or 45060 would be nice), a 45 and a 46 with sealed beam headlights and a 45/1 with high intensity headlight.
Admittedly, I might have to sell the dog to get them, but if anyone from Bachmann is reading, that's what's missing and it's what quite a few people want!

A re-tooled 25/3 is also a great idea.

If we are talking DMUs though, a 118 is sadly lacking from N.

[honk843]

Right.
There is a dilemma for manufacturers. It might be easier to produce a near identical model for the likes of those of us who spend time reading the forum but for Mr Joe Public to buy models it has to be something different. At the last show I was at in January 2020 (seems like at least five years ago) I was asked by some clever dick if I could run the Deltic again as he did not get a shot! In fact it was a British Railways "Peak" type 4. I don't think that variations on a theme work that well in N gauge but having said that how many people would but an Era one model with nothing else to run with it?
If you have just paid out £200 plus for a sound fitted class 40 how many people are going to pay that much again to get what to many would seem to be the same looking engine at 3 foot. I might buy a couple and so would a lot on the forum but it is new comers and casual modellers that will buy in the volumes needed. For what it  is worth I think Bachman have spent too much money on revamping locos which they have previously release only a couple of years before and I remember a comment in the NGS mag about the release of the new class 4 tank.
The recent EFE class 17 was excellent because it was a gap for the enthusiast and something different for those who have only just started or have only a passing interest. For the same reason it is a pity that Hattons have dropped the Garrett, Dapol can't get the West Country to the market and no progress was made with GT3.
However whilst I have great sympathy with Bachman over trying to find something that will sell in sufficient quantities to justify the cost of research and tooling, there is something wrong when they say that the market cannot justify a second 9F (a class of many variations and numbering 251) but they produce for a second time a class 66 identical to that which Dapol have brought to the market first.
Perhaps a new generation of "Peaks" is for someone like Rapido, after all it was a contempory of their class 28 --who knows?

[mark100]

So far, and unusually for me, my wallet is safe from Bachmann. It's just those beggars at RevolutioN, Kato and Rapido causing it grief

Yes I hope to be asked for the balance of my satire 320 layer this year.

Is that the one with the funny livery?

Probably!  But both my layouts,  Allanbrae and the new on Cromarty are Scotland based.  Allanbrae being broadly contemporary.

Not been following Rapido.

It's the class 28 they've announced although due date is unknown.

Actually I did pick this one up.  I already have my 3D printed body from Leicester Models - I think that is what they call themselves.  Runs on a Poole 31 chassis with a 25/3 bogie at one end.  Very nice.  Purchase long rapido type couplings from Ray Evans.  But I have adapted Poole bogies to take a NEM inner pocket before.  May so so again so I can put easi shunt onto it.  If I did later sell it I could substitue a NEM based Rapido.  Easi shunts are pricey!

Nearly, Leicester Modellers,
I agree that there are loco class and sub class variation gaps that need to be filled, whether its factory produced RTR or 3D printed. We was hoping Bachmann was going to announce peaks last week, I'm sure someone will do eventually.  Bachmann have just retooled the OO gauge class 45, plus there's loads of N Gauge stuff already announced in the Bachmann catalogue that still needs to appear, once they have got through some of that then they maybe keen to produce some newer tooling's.

The class 28 announcement was a kick in the teeth for us because we were ready to order 4 kits and thankfully someone messaged us stating there was an RTR version on the horizon, so we held back our order and have now gone for something else, I will purchase one of the RTR class 28 models when they land on our shores.

I won't babble on in case someone thinks I'm an old Roarer 

Mark
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[N_GaugeModeller]

Bachmann's summer 2021 announcement is on their YouTube channel tomorrow morning.

Any guesses for what we will see new for n-gauge

[emjaybee]

I would imagine it doesn't matter what they announce...

...what matters is whether anything actually ever appears!

[njee20]

Bachmann's summer 2021 announcement is on their YouTube channel tomorrow morning.

Any guesses for what we will see new for n-gauge

Probably HYA and HRA wagons, as I've virtually finished my 3D printed ones!

I'll never get bored of saying a class 90!

[Graham]

2nded, or is it 102nded !! still waiting though

[Steven B]

Any guesses for what we will see new for n-gauge

Lots of froth, followed by "oh, was that it", followed by "of no interest to me"....


Steven B.

[Roy L S]

With all the production challenges at the moment due to Covid, my prediction is that there will be very little if anything new announced for the Farish range, indeed any range. I would be delighted to be proved wrong, a newly announced steam loco in N would be a really nice surprise, but I highly doubt it will happen, for that I think we will probably have to wait for Sonic.

Roy

[NGS-PO]

No new models announced at all from Farish.

So it just remains to be seen what is arriving out of the previously announced models.

Best

Scott.