Well this tops off this week perfectly. I took delivery of an O gauge Class 60 yesterday as it was my 44th birthday and this fantastic news of an Accurascale Class 60 being done in OO gauge is just the icing on the cake. Hope you will consider doing an N gauge model in the future as well as maybe an O gauge one? I am loving it and I will be getting one when they come out next year.
Hi, ive just been reading your web page about these locos and totally understand your reasons for producing a class 60, especially when another one is in the pipeline somewhere else. So looking at your "Powering Britain" theme, when are you going to do a class 20. We had them everywhere on coal trains in Leicestershire. They were in service longer than a class 60, and would appeal to modellers from 1950's to today. Surely that loco is a missing gap in up to date modern models. Not only that, but you'd get to sell them in pairs too! Oh maybe you've already thought of that. Anyway any new up to date model is welcome these days. All the very best Dave.
I hope that what ever model they have chosen is one that most modellers would like and purchase and not one that’s in production at present by another manufacturer, what ever it is it will be very good indeed, fingers crossed that it’s a 💎🚈
I remember being out on the field at school and hearing a diesel I'd never heard before running on the track behind. As soon as school finished I ran home and got changed to go and find what was making this noise, I just got there in time to see 60001 heading away from me. That was its first day of testing I believe.
The Class 60 is at the very limit of my eclectic spectrum collection of locos, so I will be investing in one, as I'm sure either will be superb. PS: can you please consider a class 40? I would put my pre-order cash down immediately for an Accurascale 40. Very good video.
Really enjoyed the video. Learnt something about the internal MGR blanking-plate too. The presenter rather glossed-over the very long teething problems with the introduction of the class though.
I had convinced myself it was going to be a class 40 with a 33 or 52 as an outside bet... nope! Be nice for someone to do a decent 40 at some point. One with the correct size nose ends and gaps between the body and bogies.
I’m making my own one of those from a kit - more fun! As they’re all extinct, so no original from which to scan and take measurements, don’t expect any company to produce a new RTR one.
Come on guys, not another duplicate. What we need are the following models:- 51 type 4EPB/2EPB, CLASS 455 EMU, Class 303/311 EMU, 4CIG/4BIG EMU, Class 126 DMU, Class 120 DMU. So get announcing now models not what we already have.
Lots of good info here. Im guess at a later date this will be used as the basis for a Class 92 sometime in the future as they effectively share the same body?
agreed the class 44/45/46 could be the missing link with class 55 , 37, 31 and 50, in the line up . The only other two I can think of is the Class 40 Big "D" with the 60th anniversary of the "G.T.R.'" last year that may be a contender and then there is the Class 08. can't wait
@@modelrailfan37 Competition is the point, which is good for the consumer. Why do you think the Bachmann 31 is £169 and not their more 'normal' price of about £60 more for a new tooling? Accurascales 31, that's why.
@@modelrailfan37 Let’s hope they’ve chosen something that needs a ultra detailed touch and not something Bachmann produce, a class 08 with directional lighting would be amazing or a class 73 that is faultless or a class 58 would be a very good shout.
It will be a well represented model, as Accurascale have raised the bar in terms of detail, etc. It also shows how the hobby is changing and catering for a younger market. Most of Accurascales models, it appears to me, have been early BR to the here and now. I try to model the late "Big 4", even though I was born well after they were amalgamated. There's something about a steam locomotive breathing fire like a dragon, it lives!. It would be nice if Accurascale could put their minds to LMS, GWR, LNER and SR coaches, well perhaps not LNER as their models appear everywhere like, well you know. Still as I've said it will be an exceptional model, Lawrence.
@@melanierhianna Hi Melani, thanks for your reply. I don't disagree with you. My point, if it was a point, more of an observation, was that it would be nice to see Accurascale or whoever, produce upto 2024 model standards coaching stock instead of more and more diesels, plus mk1, 2 2A, 3, etc, coaches. .I'm not 100 percent sure but it seems to me that another, judging by the responses to this video, maybe more, manufacturers also produce this class 60?. I was born in 1960, so only vague memories of steam, it was more Hymeks and Westerns. I went down the steam route because of my dad, it was something I could enjoy with him, but there is something prehistoric about a steam locomotive, perhaps even the early diesels!
@tonyfearn2452 Hi Tony. Yes there are lots of steam era models around, after all the model railway industry started when there was nothing else!. But I'm talking about Accurascale making steam era models, other manufacturers do yes, but if you watch and read reviews, some of them are pretty poor. Sorry Hornby, the main stay of my younger self, but their latest Black 5 is, well, not great, shall we say, and a lot of money to boot. If you're going to spend your hard earned cash, at least let it be worth it.
@@mccarronfamily I paid up front on my credit card for pre-orders while I had the money, that way I would also get the money back if anything unfortunate happened.
Please be a 35. We need a new one since Heljan’s isn’t great…. I hate to say it but unless your doing something really modern almost every diesel has already been done to death by other manufacturers, most of them have a good model as well!! Not sure why people seem to think we need a 40, 44/45/46, 08, etc, other manufactures already have us covered with those classes….
@@mccarronfamily because there is more demand for cars than toy trains?! Your comparing something that almost everyone owns (a car, or at least over half the population of most wealthy countries), to something only select people own, especially when you get down to specific classes of locos
@@modelrailfan37 Everyone moans that supply of model trains is terrible and you pay over the odds for things that are never in stock - clearly demand outstrips supply in model trains, so again, competition is good
@@1701_FyldeFlyer what I’m saying is that there has been a slightly concerning level of coincidence that a few of accurascales diesels have had Bachmann or Hornby come along and release their version of it not long before accurascale does. Both the class 37 and the upcoming 31 have had Bachmann come along and make their own version right near the release window. And Hornby have shown they aren’t above doing that either (see the large prairie, terrier, and lion). Hopefully I’m wrong, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we see other manufacturers make either a new tooled class 60 or a rerelease of their old version around the time accurascales version is nearly complete
@Alpha-oo8 both bachmann and accurascale 31 and 37s have been in development for years before either announced. There not going to drop products that have 1000s invested in.
