More Hornby 2006

"awavey" wrote

Because Hornby have only tooled a Mk4 DVT, and this has previously appeared in 'Virgin' livery and now it seems it's to acquire 'one' livery.

John.

"ab" wrote

This is really scary - what sort of quality of decoder is one going to get for such a cheap price? It really makes me fear that Hornby are putting quality at the very back of the queue.

John.

Because I would very much like Hornby to do a Mk3b DVT (as per the prototype) but, *sadly*, they keep fobbing modern image modellers off with a Mk4, as they did in 2002 with the Virgin DVT.

Then again, it may just be a reflection that decoders are very cheap to make, and hornby have bought allot, hence the cheaper price?

"Piemanlarger" wrote

Unlikely knowing the profit margins that Hornby like to make, they'll certainly be cheap to produce and no doubt cheap in quality too.

John.

I'm not rushing to judgment either way. It could be Hornby buying in such large quantity (bearing in mind their continental and US markets too) that they have got a good deal. Or it could be their version of Lenz's Mac coder.

I'll wait until we've seen one in the flesh and tested it in a loco.

"John Ruddy" wrote

I suspect the latter.

John.

Try this:

Cheers, Mick

ah I see theyre making a Mk4 instead of a Mk3b, well thats a bit rubbish isnt it, has anyone sort of told them :) I just mean how do they "get away" with it, without the more discerning section of the industry pointing out what a thoroughly cheap trick it is.

AW

Much was said of it at the time, and Hornby's response was that it was the only way modellers were going to get a West Coast DVT as new tooling would cost too much. Shame really, as with the ex-Lima 67 and Mk3a sleeper Hornby could have released an EWS Executive Train pack. :)

With respect Pat didn't promise any such thing. He said he "planned" to post the information on the dot of midnight *if* he remembered and *if* the celebrations allowed. He has also updated the site on several days over the holiday period on which he didn't plan to work at all.

(kim)

Still waiting for an answer to the previous post.