Stanier Suburbans from Dapol

[class8mikado]

Hope at least the push pull set gets done...

[Roy L S]

Hope at least the push pull set gets done...

If they are already 80% there and magazines with ads promoting the coaches (including the NGS Journal) have only just landed on people's doormats I would be cautiously optimistic that the minimum quantity required to make the whole project viable will be achieved including the push-pull coaches.

With the success of the Gresley BG and refurbed Buffet already achieved, it does leave me pondering whether we might at some point see some other similarly marginal projects promoted in a similar way going forward.

Roy

[Newportnobby]

It also means there's no discount from the box shifters

[Roy L S]

It also means there's no discount from the box shifters

True, but also no dealer margin to factor in to pricing where sold direct.

To be honest on the face of it that may look like a good thing and is certainly a way of bringing a more "marginal" model to market, but in terms of supporting a network of model shops it does nothing, so I hope it is used selectively. I also hope that it means the tooling can be used for subsequent runs made available to their dealer network.

Roy

[Newportnobby]

I'd like to think that, paying £40 for a coach, any left unsold are not discounted as, having supported both projects from the get go, I'd be seriously brassed off

[cmason]

Thanks for that. I don't do Facebook. Perhaps they could update their own website

People that "do" Facebook don't realise that many of us don't. They should certainly have a progress line at the top of the "expression of interest" page. It would probably accelerate progress. If it's gone from 50% to 80% in a month, they should get there or thereabouts by March...

As someone who mostly uses this branch of the NGF but also, to a lesser extent, "does" the FaceBook branch, albeit sticking to only certain well moderated groups and avoiding the general melee, it is quiet noticeable how the NGF community is largely split into two separate "sections" with the overlapping portion of the venn diagram being relatively small....

Anyhoo, getting back to the topic, I do suspect we will get there on this project. In fact to some extent I might even welcome the possibility of a slight delay as I have so much on pre-order here and there right now that the prospect of it all coming in at once is slightly concerning...  .     

[madchadbrad]

As I expressed interest in almost all of the Gresley versions, I decided to only plump for four of the Staniers, one of each pattern, and only in BR lined maroon, as these would match the only suitable loco I have for push-pull operation.  I would run a 2-coach push pull train: fitted comp, DBT; alternating with a 4-coach pull-only: plus 3rd & BT. I expect that someone will eventually tell me that my particular choice would, prototypically, never be seen running together! Oh well, I did my best to help get the project to the finishing post ... currently >80% . . .

[madchadbrad]

The Stanier non-corridor coaches project is now 90% there, according to Dapol's Facebook account but it hasn't appeared on their website-proper yet . . .

 I was sure they were initially announced as "non-corridor" but now they seem to be "non-lavatory suburban"? Are they compartmented or open?

[Steven B]

They're compartmented - see the CAD Image of the brake-second/third about a third of the way down the December project update:
https://www.dapol.co.uk/blogs/news/n-gauge-lms-period-iii-57ft-non-lavatory-suburban-stock-progress-report