I hear Hornby are producing class 101 units. So far Blue and Green have been announced. Although both are way before the period i'm interested in.
The question i wonder is will there be any chance of a Regional Railways or a Strathclyde Orange model?
Very few seem to come up on Ebay lately.
Mat.
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It's the old Lima model with a different power unit.
Not this year.
John.
At least that will be an improvement, although the Lima power unit does growl rather like the real thing.
"MartinS" wrote
I'll reserve judgement on that. If it's like the thing in the 'Networker' or the 'Eurostar' I'd question whether it was actually an improvement.
John.
John Turner said the following on 22/08/2006 09:35:
They wouldn't, would they?
Just as well people like High Level Kits are around if that is the case!
I'm looking forward to the GWR railcar being released. I'll be able to do my hackery then with either the Hornby model or suddenly-cheaper-on-eBay Lima models.
That it does!
I'm glad/relieved that it is the Lima model re-released, i was hoping Hornby weren't trying their own hand at it because if it looks anything like the accuracy of the 110 or the 142 they did then it'd be naff. That said i'm not usually a fan of Lima's products but the 101 was actually a fairly decent model, it actually looked something like and had flush glazing, unlike the 117 they released.
I'm still eagerly awaiting Bachmann's 108s... i generally expect good things from Bachmann, the mark 1 coaches they have are the benchmark.
But i'll keep my eye out for the Blue/Grey era and upwards 101s from Hornby.
Mat.
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I hope they also take the opportunity to re-tool the extremely naff Lima bogies on the 101 - they more than anything else let the model down in my opinion. It was far too shallow and as a result there was a gross amount of daylight between the tops of the bogies and the car bodies.
Why am sufficiently cynical to think they will not have considered this?
John.
Well there was that, there were a few other issues as well that could be ironed out.
Mat.
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I'm just hoping they don't produce the blue one as illustrated in their catalogue - the first class stripe is on the wrong end! M50319 should be a DMBS and M50337 a DMCL.
David
"David Jackman" wrote
Don't hope too hard, they managed to model DRS 37038 as a centre headcode loco! Doh!
John.
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