Bachmann - Spring 2023 British Railway Announcements

[Tank]

"Tomorrow we shall be revealing our next British Railway Announcements, the first for 2023. All the new items will be unveiled in a video which premieres on YouTube at 9.30am.

You can watch along via the following link:
https://youtu.be/xsTvGMJs9mE and I shall be issuing a formal press release and images as usual to you tomorrow."

[Southerngooner]

Slightly underwhelming as expected, although the re-release of the Sealions is good news. Lots of fuss about different running numbers, which is getting a bit silly as you can't tell the difference at normal viewing distances......

Dave

[nobby]

 no coaches again , seacows are a nice addition though

[NGS-PO]

The Walruses (Walri?) are a very welcome model, I'll happily take a few of them.

As are the Bogie Bolsters, although for them I'll wait until the harder to shift livery is discounted further (GW?) and repaint into my chosen livery perhaps.

Best

Scott.

[ngaugeSAM]

Not a lot to get excited for modern image, nice to get the freightliner green to run with the new orange livery...

[Richard Taylor]

Not a lot to get excited for modern image anyone...

As they say, FTFY.

Scenecraft buildings must sell, otherwise they wouldn't keep releasing them, but who on earth buys those overpriced misbegotten lumps of badly-moulded junk with their wobbly windows and over scale detailing?!  The "grounded carriage" is particularly taking the mickey:  you could ground a Dapol or old Farish body with a wash of dirty thinners for significantly less money and have an underframe/pair of bogies left over to use under another vehicle!

Tank wagons are nice - will have a few of the ICI ones.  But otherwise - yawn.  And the next quarter's announcement will be the one affected by the Chinese New Year shutdown, so that'll be a thin one.

Beginning to feel that modelling in N is like being a Millwall supporter. ("Everyone hates us, we don't care." :-))

RichardT

[martyn]

At least there wasn't a Twin or toffee apple... 

As for two running numbers, quite a few of the wagons chosen would be in rakes of much more than two anyway, and as Southerngooner said, at normal distances, who can tell what it is anyway?

Next time........

Martyn

[Portpatrick]

Another underwhelming set of releases.  I await the next release of 73XXX 5MTs - I have a weathered one on order from TMC.  Plenty of wagons, and also coaches. 

[Brian-1c]

I quite like the idea of different running numbers, as Revolution and Rapido have also done, with great diligence. Whilst I cannot read the numbers either and have stopped bothering about duplicate numbers in my stock, I still will choose the different numbers when I can, so I appreciate the effort, at least.

But, if there are four running numbers available, I'll still buy 2 or 3, or 4 of each to make up a train, without really minding that I now have mutliples of the same running number. As above, I can't see which are the duplicates anyway. It makes me smile at my own daft actions in this. Don't even mention my maroon Mk1s with M, E, W and Sc prefixes. I'm glad I can't see that once they are on the track.

[N-Gauge-US]

Not a lot to get excited for modern image, nice to get the freightliner green to run with the new orange livery...

Warning! Grumble alert:
If there isn't a lot to get excited about for modern image, there is literally nothing that is Grouping or Pre-Grouping. Not one single steam locomotive, no wagon that wasn't produced by BR, and, as pointed out already, no coaches. Very disappointing. People love to complain about Dapol and glorify Farish locos, but I don't have any more problems with Dapol locos than Farish, the detailing is usually better, and the availability and selection Dapol offers is staggering by comparison. While neither has exactly been cranking out new classes of loco recently, at least Dapol provides a large variety of liveries and keeps them in stock with stockists, which Farish seems unable or unwilling to do.
Grumble over. 😖

[Newportnobby]

Phew! What saved, IMHO, 28 minutes of dross was the announcement of the new brandings. Let's face it, the old ones were looking somewhat 'tired'
(For pity's sake, who really gives a  about the branding )

[Foxhound]

Please to see Sealions and Walruses (although the cost is getting a bit prohibitive) but otherwise underwhelmed.
I agree with other posters both here and 'on the socials' that another run of Mk1s and Mk2s, particularly in blue & grey, would be very welcome.

I can't imagine how the steam boys must be feeling. Talk about being passed over.

[pinball]

another run of Mk1s and Mk2s, particularly in blue & grey, would be very welcome.

My thoughts exactly!

[Aire Valley]

YGH Sealion was a welcome surprise. Who saw that one coming?! I'm glad that they're doing another run on what was rumoured as a model never to be released again. Given that there were hundreds in civil engineers yellow/grey and only a handful in Loadhaul, Transrail and Mainline, I expect the Dutch livery to be very popular.

The rest was pretty underwhelming, again.

No coaches
No update on sound fitted class 47
No update on class 158
No additional class 60 liveries
No update on class 69
No sound fitted class 37
No update on HAA (re-release announced in 2019)
No re-tooled Poole era rolling stock.
No new tooled rolling stock. Again.

2023 Chinese New Year. Year of the sloth.

Tim

[Newportnobby]

No plain green Warship 371-606
No Hawksworth BG blue 374-587

I still think it a huge shame Farish never beat Dapol to the 9F, although the later Dapol one is much improved over the old one.