Hi ! Great video ! Small remark concerning the train, it is in fact a TGV Réseau, and not a TGV Atlantique. I don't know how Mehano did their work lol. In real life, they are differentiated by their number of cars (8 for a TGV Réseau, 10 for a TGV Atlantique). But when the number of cars is not identifiable, we look at the number on the motor cars. If it's between 301 and 405, it's an Atlantique. If it's between 501 and 554 + 560 or 4501 to 4530 + 4551, it's a Réseau ! Obviously it's a positive remark, happy to see a train from my country on your channel!
Trivia : - The SNCF logo appearing on this train is the 2005-2011 SNCF logo. - No more TGV have this livery anymore. The last one was the TGV Duplex 283, who is actually in Strasbourg to wear is new livery "Carmillon". - The first and fourth pantographs are for 1,5kV, and works always together when they're raised. The second and third are the 25kV ones. Only one work when the TGV is running, and it's the farest from the heading locomotive. - No TGV runs with American train (just kidding (actually no but you understand me right ?))
Mdr il n'ont fait aucun effort sur le TGV atlantique 😂, pas les bon pantographe sur une des motrices, le logo inversé, le numéro et en plus ils ont livré le carton avec 2 rails manquant 😂 C'est drôle de voir un américain découvrir les train Français
Et pour info il reste seulement la motrices et quelques voiture du TGV 325 qui est encore bleu, préserver à Mulhouse On ne va pas parler des 4500 qui perdent complètement leur livré carmillon et qui retrouvent la livré Bleu Lacroix
As a french teen, I was grumpy when I saw that one of your first european train was an I.C.E but now with this masterpiece in your collection it's ok 😁
I had the ICE 3 set from Mehano. It was quite a good set overall. The power car was reasonably heavy and had all wheel driven. The couplings were pivoting, and quite freely, which prevented the derailing. The unpainted parts don't look good though. The finish is very plasticky on these. And the pantographs made of plastic aren't very nice either, because they're too brittle. I think they would've been better if they were made from metal. The steel track provided isn't very goot either because it's prone to rusting. Unfortunately, I don't have that train anymore, because I was a kid when I had it, it broke and didn't work anymore. The breakage turned out to be because of wire getting unsoldered, I didn't know that and dismantled the model. I still have parts of it laying around somewhere today, hopefully I'll be able to fix it up and use again. The track that came with it is rusty and unuasable anymore.
(en) Excuse me from Japan. The TGV is a well-known train in Japan. Since I was a little girl, it was introduced as "French bullet train". It is very cool even if it is a model! Is the track made by KATO Uni-Track? I feel familiar with it because I rarely see it in movies outside of Japan. The ICE3 and other trains are also very cool!
Good unboxing and review with a carefully crafted selection of shots and commentary. The only thing, I didn't see the relevance of the pair of tweezers! Maybe just point with your finger? Thanks for uploading.
so the windows next to the door is actually seats for passengers and the irl speed is actually 320 km/h (it depends where) and i had 2 mehano on christmas and it didn't really run well (they are broken
Oh BTW, I would do a much larger distance to measure speed. If your camera is recording at 60fps, that means the best accuracy you have is 1/60 or 0.017 seconds yet you're comparing times that go claim to be 0.001 sec. level of precision, and as you saw with the loco without the cars, the difference in speed was big but thats only 2 frames difference in speed so depending on when your camera happened to record the frame at the start of the measurement and the end you easily could account for some of that discrepancy in speed.
Don't know if anyone can help on this, but I have this brand and TGV and I'm really struggling to attached the two passenger coaches together? My two couplers are at the same height, with only one pin in the centre to attach them to, so once one coach is attached to the central coupler the other is repelled and doesn't snap over the other. Does anyone else find this?
I wish there were more bullet train type of models in HO scale sold in the US, I mean look at Kato and they have every Shinkansen train ever created in every paint scheme ever done but only in N-scale, now sure Kato is a Japanese company so I expect it, but I'm just tired of the never ending stream of diesel locos that seem to be the main thing every company from Walthers to Bachmann releases, and again I get it they model what's local and we don't have bullet trains over here. Here's hoping the CAHSR project gets enough track down to run trains so we do have something to model after.
