GRESLEY COACHES

"John Bishop" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@ddrummond.demon.co.uk... Apparently there was a blood and custard version running on Thurston at Beckenham last weekend. Wasn't able to stop and look, due on car park duties...... Then I forgot.

"John Bishop" wrote

Only the Composite Brake currently available. One of my extremely knowledgeable customers regrets the use of Isinglass drawings and wishes they'd used those by Nick Campling, but never-the-less ordered two more examples for when they're released.

Another suggested that the end windows on the (Hornby website pictures of) the All 3rd are incorrectly positioned, but again has confirmed his order for several more despite the fairly serious price hike.

All in all the one released so far looks nice, but are we looking at a case of spoiling the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar?

No lighting in answer to Andy Sollis's question.

John.

John,

I note, in another mailing group, that Nick Campling has noted a dimensional error in the horizontal beading of the coaches.

Jim.

Is your customer knowledgable as to what information John Edgson (Isinglass) provided? He has a large amount of original material on which he bases his drawings, and may have provided this.

At any rate, he is reportedly also disappointed at the outcome. I'll ask next time I see him, probably next month at Watford.

Sadly, the reported errors are distinctive enough that they'll show up if the remaining types are tooled correctly, or if they are marshalled next to a correctly hand built model.

Cheers, Francis K.

"Francis Knight" wrote

The information was provided to my customer by Nick Campling who also has access to similar material and has produced drawings of Gresley coaches.

John.

These look very good. When are we going to have some top quality modern stuff, ok the Mk1s, Mk3s look good, but they havent put as much effort in. How about having some with peope inside???

James

James S wrote: [...] When are we going to have some top quality modern

I hope you realise that 1/2 a coach load or so of passengers will probably cost as much as the coach, maybe more, especially if you want 'em painted, too. It's not the plastic that costs, it's the diework.

I have just recieved a couple of these in custard & cream and must say that to me they are excellent and worth every penny. I took one out of the box and just sat there looking at it for about 15 minutes. Thre are even tiny gaps between the door grabs and the body. My only problem is that I normally add a bit of weathering to my stock to make it not look ex-works, but I'm not sure that I can do that to these, as it might spoil their appearance.

Congratulations Hornby, on a wonderful product.