Andy Mann Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 (edited) I am going to have to continue with my scratch build as I have the chassis bits and 3 bodies roughly made, but maybe Santa may consider me nice in December? Any chance of a mk1 Ivor, before Mr Morgan gave him his 3 note whistle? WhatsApp Video 2024-09-17 at 09.51.48_03b90c24.mp4 Edited September 18 by Andy Mann Add image 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mol_PMB Posted September 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18 2 minutes ago, Dagworth said: Ivor meets blue Diesels when they go to Merioneth, one of which is clearly based on a Western. Andi The diesel on the left looks worryingly like the Fell. I know there are mixed feelings about that beast! Ivor's posh 8-wheel carriage will perhaps be a future release? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RapidoJamie Posted September 18 Popular Post Share Posted September 18 1 hour ago, rapidoandy said: Oh - a massive shout out to one of my designers is due - Jamie Patterson take a bow. Jamie and I worked taking the animations and turning them into something 3D. Hes done a great job and its somewhat fitting that the product has been launched on his 21st birthday! Thanks so much Andy! It's been a real passion project (not just for me, but for Andy and everyone involved). It's a real honour to pay tribute to such a well-loved character and the release is a wonderful birthday present. I know I for one will have to build Ivor a layout to call home 😁 And most importantly - thank YOU all so much, dear modellers, for all the kind words and positive responses! 13 9 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Pteremy Posted September 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18 So next bit of the excitement must be additional 'special commissions'. Looking at the map there must be scope for some? A rectank for the gasworks? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Parker Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 Time for an in-depth interview with @rapidoandy 11 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 6 minutes ago, Dagworth said: Ivor meets blue Diesels when they go to Merioneth, one of which is clearly based on a Western. There's some retconning going on in that image, though. The original of that episode was part of the original early 1959 ITV run, long before blue diesels. But the first set of episodes in monochrome were remade in colour for the subsequent BBC transmissions in the mid 1970s. So the main line locos at Merioneth were given appropriate-to-the-70s liveries, despite that not fitting the original storyline (and, in the 1970s, the presence of a black steam loco at the back would have been an anachronism). So I'm sticking with era 4 as the most plausible timescale, although of course as an independent railway the MLRTC could well have lasted into the 70s 🙂 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted September 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 18 @rapidoandy @RapidoJamie A huge part of the charm of Ivor the Engine is Peter Firmin's handmade artwork. Even more so today compared to the CGI perfection we see everywhere. Will you be able to reproduce any of that original feeling in the paint scheme and livery? 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Jiff Kenobi Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 Well, consider me surprised and delighted. I never seriously thought I'd see a ready-to-run Ivor in my lifetime, but I'm so glad it's happened. I might as well just post my debit card to Rails at this rate! 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 1 hour ago, Neil said: Though most innovative there is a problem; what era is the model? Is it pre grouping Welsh, sixties end of steam, early preservation era? I think we need to know. Well, if we're going off production dates-and for once I mean television, not manufacturing!: Era 7 (1975–1977), but can be backdated to Era 5 (1959) if painted in black and white. 2 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bernard Lamb Posted September 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18 Even Jessica Fletcher could not see that one coming. Brilliant. Bernard 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 38 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said: The diesel on the left looks worryingly like the Fell. I know there are mixed feelings about that beast! Looks more like a Class 17 to me. Quote Ivor's posh 8-wheel carriage will perhaps be a future release? Got to keep something back for a future announcement! 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozzer models Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 do not need, do not need, do not need, do not need, do not need, what have i done 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathonAG Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 Well, I'm on the fence about buying a set myself... However, congratulations to Rapido here. A cartoon full of charm, it is bound to a best seller just on nostalgia alone. A single prototype it may be, but it's been shown in the past that such restrictions as 'Did it even exist?' are no hurdle in this hobby. Great for the adults, great for the kids, and as mentioned before...the smaller production has seen it's integrity preserved and not ruined by modern CGI twists (or dare I mention, another 'kids' train programme which has went entirely 2d but now features engines using their wheels as effective limbs among other departures from it's initial intentions....). Okay, may have slowly talked myself into a purchase there too... 😅 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted September 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 18 I can think of all sorts of interesting things I could do with thse wagon underframes as a seperate item. I now just want to buy Ivor and build his engine shed, which I've always rather loved. 5 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
durham light infantry Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 3 hours ago, Peter Kazmierczak said: Shout out for Chigley! "Interestingly Jason had never come across Ivor (same as Titfield) until I sat him down in the office last year and made him watch an episode!'" Sit him down and make him watch Chigley. Bessie, Lord Belborough and Brackett. Treddle's Wharf and Farthing's Chigley Pottery as resin rtp buildings. Not forgetting Cresswell's Chigley Biscuits. Trumptonshire has a plethora of modellable scenes. As discussed with a friend on the phone earlier. The whole Trumpton/Camberwick Green/Chigley has obviously had some bearing on my interests since watching them as a child. I can remember loads of things about them, but I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday Also clearly influenced somebody behind Life on Mars... 7 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 TBH, when I saw the figures were cardboard cut-outs I thought "what a load of cheap sh..." Then I remembered that's perfectly on brand for Ivor! Of course they would be cardboard cutouts!! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Garry D100 Posted September 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 18 6 minutes ago, Coldgunner said: ... I thought "what a load of cheap sh..." I assume you were going to say sheep there :-) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JShow Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 As an American, Ivor has no nostalgia value for me, although, as a business decision, this will be a winner for Rapido. About that coal car, however. While it's not being sold as a separate item, I could use four or five as a substitute for Hudson tippers to carry colliery waste to the tip. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 1 hour ago, Dagworth said: Ivor meets blue Diesels when they go to Merioneth, one of which is clearly based on a Western. ... Judging by the windows it's probably the product of an amorous encounter between a Western and a late-style GWR railcar ! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted September 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18 (edited) Wrong scale*, but how can I not? Hope you're doing Bluebell too. Ivor did run alongside the Skarloey railway didn't he? It'd be great if you could get the shading on the livery to match the program's artwork. If you can manage teak then surely the factory is up for another challenge? *one in N Gauge would be super nice though! Any chance of The Juggernaut for when Ivor's away with the circus? Edited September 18 by Steven B 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 I've just had another idea for a layout. If we go for the 1950s timeline for Ivor, then as well as Thunderbolt it's also the same era as the original Railway Series books. So... set a layout in the late 1950s (or possibly early 1960s) at a station, possibly at a very early heritage railway, which is hosting a steam gala. The twist being that this is an alternate universe where things that we know from fiction are actually real. In which case, among the visiting locos and trains at the gala we will see Ivor, followed by Thunderbolt. And then, a blue LBSC E2. Not with a face on - that's just for the books - but as it would have been in real life if the Sodor North Western Railway really existed. For this to work, of course, what we need is an E2 up to the same standard as Thunderbolt/Lion and the forthcoming Ivor. Which, unfortunately, doesn't exist. Hornby have a very basic Railroad E2, which is essentially their previous Thomas defaced and painted green instead of blue. But that's nowhere near current RTR standards. So maybe this is something else that can go onto the wish/froth list. (I'm still trying to work out how to shoehorn the Railway Children and the Hogwarts Express into my scenario, but we can sort that out later). 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted September 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 18 Prefer Noggin the Nog personally. Mike. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 Just now, Enterprisingwestern said: Prefer Noggin the Nog personally. Mike. Pretty hard to make a model train based around Noggin.😁 2 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold D9020 Nimbus Posted September 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 18 In the 1950s I don't think Thomas was an E2 — that didn't happen until the Hornby model was introduced. He was originally a Stewart-Reidpath "generic" 0-6-0T to start with… It all depends on which part of Thomas' history you class as "real"… 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted September 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 18 3 minutes ago, woodenhead said: Pretty hard to make a model train based around Noggin.😁 There's a whole range in Germany, Wiking!! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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