RMweb Premium Scottish-Exile Posted January 5, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2018 Going by the countdown timer, noon. The family has been warned that I am likely to be inarticulate for two days. What's the betting all we'll see is a generic "Our Servers Are Busy" message when we try and log in to the announcements! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted January 5, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5, 2018 I'm sure youll get full details on here. That's where I first look anyway, not the individual web sites Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted January 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) Going by the countdown timer, noon. The family has been warned that I am likely to be inarticulate for two days. Sunday: Bachmann, Monday: Hornby, Tuesday: Pub lunch with mates to celebrate/drown sorrows as appropriate. Whichever way things go, it'll be a pleasant change for the main subject to be something other than The Ashes. John Edited January 5, 2018 by Dunsignalling 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Decorum Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Sunday: Bachmann, Monday: Hornby, Tuesday: Pub lunch with mates to celebrate/drown sorrows as appropriate. Whichever way things go, it'll be a pleasant change for the main subject to be something other than The Ashes. John Yes, the Nelsons didn’t have self-cleaning smokeboxes, did they? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cor-onGRT4 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) Just one day till the BIG BANG that evaporates I'm now taking precautions, i'm going to my bunker Edited January 5, 2018 by Cor-onGRT4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted January 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 5, 2018 I’ve just pulled up a 9400 Lima body for a chassis and a repaint as I think that is still a while away yet. That's sitting next in line to the Class 122 DTS I'm working on at the moment. Expecting one in the next Dapol announcements. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren01 Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 me waiting to see whats going to be announced, be good to see what i need to save up for, roll on Sunday. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clock O' The North Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I have a feeling it could be an industrial, just by the fact that it has been 2 years since Hornby announced theirs...................Or a LNER J27, I really don't mind 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I'm getting excited to see the forthcoming change in the thread mood from upbeat frothing to that of instant depression and dashing of hopes with all those negative 'nothing for me', 'why didn't they . . .', 'why that', 'what!', 'wrong colour', etc., type of comments posted a nanosecond after the announcements are made public. Bring them on - the best forum entertainment. G. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 (edited) “ nothing in it for me “. Like Grahame above, I was hoping for the 1954 Cuban cigar mines 0-6-0 in TT scale, and in the more numerous che Guevara black......I can’t beleive they are doing it in communist red ! Missed opportunity... Edited January 6, 2018 by rob D2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Scottish-Exile Posted January 6, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2018 “ nothing in it for me “. Like Grahame above, I was hoping for the 1954 Cuban cigar mines 0-6-0 in TT scale, and in the more numerous che Guevara black......I can’t beleive they are doing it in communist red ! Missed opportunity... You have to join the Collectors Club for the black one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted January 6, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2018 (edited) Monday.............. Ava Larff Edited January 6, 2018 by Mallard60022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted January 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2018 “ nothing in it for me “. Like Grahame above, I was hoping for the 1954 Cuban cigar mines 0-6-0 in TT scale, and in the more numerous che Guevara black......I can’t beleive they are doing it in communist red ! Missed opportunity... Looking through old magazines and brochures for manufacturers like Vulcan and North British, I think it would be fantastic to see some prototypes models of locomotives built for export and left these shores. Indeed visiting museums around the world I have a mass appreciation for the engineering base the UK used to have in transport. Sadly unless they are commissioned in their own countries theres little to no chance of ever seeing them in HO rtr, though fortunately I do have one or two exported gems in HO.. NS3737, Liliput did a NB an SNCF 2-10-0, I'd love to get my hands on a Eureka Garratt and of course Bachmann gave us the WD in NS/Egypt/Hong Kong guises, and Hornby's 8F, but the likes of 4-8-2 19D's in South Africa or a GMAM is a remote option, forget some UK built locos in far flung locations like Japan, Taiwan, India, China and South America. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaneofFife Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I'm getting excited to see the forthcoming change in the thread mood from upbeat frothing to that of instant depression and dashing of hopes with all those negative 'nothing for me', 'why didn't they . . .', 'why that', 'what!', 'wrong colour', etc., type of comments posted a nanosecond after the announcements are made public. Bring them on - the best forum entertainment. G. I rarely see many posts saying that but do tire of seeing more than a fair share of posts like this ^ that are simply a moan about people that actually haven't posted what they are saying they posted but it makes them look so self righteous......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Looking through old magazines and brochures for manufacturers like Vulcan and North British, I think it would be fantastic to see some prototypes models of locomotives built for export and left these shores. Indeed visiting museums around the world I have a mass appreciation for the engineering base the UK used to have in transport. Sadly unless they are commissioned in their own countries theres little to no chance of ever seeing them in HO rtr, though fortunately I do have one or two exported gems in HO.. NS3737, Liliput did a NB an SNCF 2-10-0, I'd love to get my hands on a Eureka Garratt and of course Bachmann gave us the WD in NS/Egypt/Hong Kong guises, and Hornby's 8F, but the likes of 4-8-2 19D's in South Africa or a GMAM is a remote option, forget some UK built locos in far flung locations like Japan, Taiwan, India, China and South America. There is the S160 and I'd love to see a 4mm version of that. Also the SA Garretts would be a nice addition to the NG range. But most of all something small and branchlineish from the LNW, MR or LYR please 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Looking through old magazines and brochures for manufacturers like Vulcan and North British, I think it would be fantastic to see some prototypes models of locomotives built for export and left these shores... There does seem to have been some styling commonality between Beyer Peacock and GCR Gorton. I saw a preserved Beyer 0-6-0 in India (don't ask me where, India is such a multi-coloured blur of impressions on the senses it's hard to remember anything accurately!) which looked not unrelated to an LNER J10, and a rather similar Egyptian railways 0-6-0 too, once stripped of the sunshade roof, louvred cab side openings, awnings etc..Could possibly be represented by significantly mangling a Bach J11? .. the engineering base the UK used to have in transport. Maybe not in railway any more. But there's no past tense in the UK's large contribution to gas turbine engineering in the transport application. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I think you’d be safe, for at least 2-3 years ;-) even if it was announced. I’ve just pulled up a 9400 Lima body for a chassis and a repaint as I think that is still a while away yet. Or even hurry along to Hattons, where I have just seen a GF OO 9400 on offer for £16. How bad/good were they as compared to the Lima body? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I rarely see many posts saying that but do tire of seeing more than a fair share of posts like this ^ that are simply a moan about people that actually haven't posted what they are saying they posted but it makes them look so self righteous......... Humour failure ^ ? But I'll take self righteous. And I'll get in my upset indignation moan in early as I too have frothed a wish list - "damn, I can't believe they haven't announced a 2EPB, after all it's . . . " G 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Or even hurry along to Hattons, where I have just seen a GF OO 9400 on offer for £16. How bad/good were they as compared to the Lima body? Let's just say it was dated by the mid 1970s. in the same way as the old Hornby Jinty was. If it wasn't, then Lima probably wouldn't have made their own version. Which wasn't too bad apart from some slight enlargement to allow the fitting of the motor. The Lima one still stands up pretty well. Some people have even been putting High Level chassis under them and they look very good. Jason 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy L S Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I had a 00 GF 94xx. Very different to Lima. Cast metal body, decent can motor and ran very well. I think they were made until Farish abandoned 00 around 1980, Roy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I rarely see many posts saying that but do tire of seeing more than a fair share of posts like this ^ that are simply a moan about people that actually haven't posted what they are saying they posted but it makes them look so self righteous.........[/quote Self righteous....nah we call it taking the p.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
centraltrains Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Going by the countdown timer, noon. The family has been warned that I am likely to be inarticulate for two days. Where is the countdown timer? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Turpin Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Where is the countdown timer? It's been deferred a couple of years due to production difficulties. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chamby Posted January 6, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2018 Where is the countdown timer?Someone worked out that it gave away the announcement time, so they blacked it out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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