God bless Accurascale, please do a class 08 and a class 58, and a well priced turntable that you don’t need a Swiss bank account to call on, great news.
@@TrainFan_95 Nothing overly bad tbh. There are a few outstanding issues though - No marker lights - No capacitor bank to assist stalling on points on either model - Conrod on both the Bachmann and Hornby is a bit flimsy On top of that, there are just a metric-tonne of liveries that have not been done. 08s are the skittles of model railways.
I really want a DB Maritime machine. Having worked for the company for a few years it would be nice to have one on my layout. Really looking forward to seeing these in the flesh.
I at first thought what was going on? The Hattons' 66 moved things on substantially and is an incredible performer, but admittedly is flawed. Then I read the small print!! Excellent selection. Doors don't open !! 🙄🙄
Another award-winning Locomotive. It is so good to see all the new liveries they are the modern version of what we had in our days. Apart from BR, you can have it in any colour you like as long as it is black. Martin. (Thailand.
I was about to jump in saying WTF do we need yet another 66 when Hattons one is so good.... I was wondering why Hattons hadn't done another run of them, so a proper manufacturer buying their tooling makes sense.
Extremely tasty Accurascale and very good price indeed - Fingers cross (as Xmas present) for the forthcoming Rodney Class 50's, got detailed Hatton 66 and happy with that; but wouldn't say no to a detailed Class 31,37 or 66 from A/scale in the future. Hope A/scale does a detailed Class 87 and HST afterwards
4:40 that's potentially quite exciting - please, please let that not be the only tooling Accurascale acquired from Hattons!!! If there's an Accurascale update of the Hattons Andrew Barclay on the way, I can say right now I want all the variants. Not kidding, I want them all. Every one.
This is such a likeable and smart company. It was only last week that I was wondering why Hattons had not done another run. This is why. Great business sense to take a good loco and make it great. Also there are still so many liveries to do.
It will be further down the line before I find a livery not in my collection. Currently I have 8 Hattons and 46 Bachmann Class 66s. In the case of the latter nine by Rainbow Railways and one by Bens Resprays (Rail Riders Express). Having seven of the 92s the quality will be there and at a very reasonable cost.
Canadian HO modeller who has an interest in UK stuff here. I understand the reasons these came into being was a-lot of railway companies where not happy with the as new designs and reliability of newer older British locomotives, hence why they turned to GM in USA and Canada to supply new locomotives being these. But is there a deeper, more complicated reason why the British railway manufacturers could not come up with a more reliable design?
Money. Oh... and the ability to design, finance, project manage and deliver the reliable end-product. Also not forgetting the endless and interminable testing and type approval procedures. Lest we forget it took Foster Yeoman nearly 5 bloody years to get the GM 59 approved......
As for 'more reliable, I think the FY 59's provided 98% reliability in their first operational year. Don't think there was a UK manufacturer that could dream of that. Wisconsin's Ed Burkhart wasn't going to entrust his UK operation to a dodgy European design when he had a fully UK approved GM design off the shelf to order. He was right too.
@@LNER985 it’s about time the 67 had a upgrade, Hornby’s model is an old Lima moulding, the class 66 is getting another upgrade courtesy of Hatton’s old moulding via Accurascale, so why not the 67.
The Southern Railway and the later Southern Region must be the poor relation in room for British companies manufacturing British 00 scale model railways.
Hornby are being obliterated in the OO gauge market...and their TT product is arguably sub-par. Going to go out of business soon if competitors like Accurascale can produce this quality for sub-£200!
Think they will survive - although not much in terms of OO scale this year - pretty expensive for sure and their TT/120 gauge (judging by url's) seem to be very popular - abeit expensive again and no budget route in (yet).
The 66 itself is contesting Bachmann more... not Hornby. So far only 5 locos, the 30/31, 50, 56, 60 and 92 are the only ones that have been poached. Hornby still also have an extremely dominant Steam and modern prototype portfolio. What I do agree is an issue is pricing... or rather mis-pricing and mis-categorizing their products. Some items should drop from their main range e.g. 66/92 and into railroad at a more realistic price. Accurascale clearly also know how to market better.
Can't disagree more. Accurascale models look fabulous, perhaps the best in OO gauge, but whilst Hornby has some challenges, especially cost wise, they have got a diverse range and the TT stuff is pretty good. TT 120 has totally reinvigorated my interest in the hobby, and I I'm looking forward to buying far more as the range widens out.
As other manufacturers have already given us the 66, why do we need to buy yet another? Ok it’s super detailed, with all the ups and downs that brings with it. It’s too modern for my layout, so I wouldn’t be buying one!
