Bachmann and Farish Winter Announcements Nov 4

[bluedepot]

that's a real shame about scenecraft.

i suppose it was getting too expensive to produce and not profitable enough for bachmann?  the prices were getting extremely high as well.

[Suffolk Rob]

Good to see some more steam releases, even if not for me.

Little surprised to see another 2 150s, been a fair few farish DMUs in bargin bins for a while now.

Bit sad to see Scenecraft on the way out, found a few bits and pieces useful over the years, but again, bargin bins seem to suggest it's getting harder to produce them at an acceptable retail price.

But 3 20s and a 4mt in my pre orders and coming soon apparantly so enough to look forward to

[bluedepot]

it's a shame central trains 150 isn't in the early livery (white, blue stripe, green) because they haven't done this version before

[sedge]

I'm sad to see the Scenecraft range go, and I might pick up one of the GWR "standard stations" for future use (repainted to pre-nationalisation colours). They're convenient and look good, though they are frighteningly expensive.

I finally did the scenics on my first layout this summer, after years of prevaricating. I've used a few Scenecraft buildings, with small bits of repainting. But there are more and more 3d printed buildings available with exquisite detail. I reckon if I'd done the scenics 8 years ago, I might have used double the amount of Scenecraft-type buildings; if I do another layout in 5 years time, I would expect 3d printed models will cover at least 90% of my needs.