Product Showcase: June - Bulleid 4-SUB, Marsh I2, Drummond's D15 and Billington Coaches!
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- Still working out if this format works, but as always do let me know on your thoughts below!
But have got some more models to show off this month, a full set of Brighton Coaches, along with a new tank engine to do with them, a mini version of my real steam engine, the Drummond D15 and a very nice looking Bulleid 4-Sub unit.
Hopefully this should be the last one where I cram in four sets of models, will be a more reasonable three next time!
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James. Great work. The 4 SUB and LBSCR coaches will definitely be on my shopping list. The 2 NOL is nearly finished , and next , the I 2.
Keep up the good work. Pete.
Cheers very much Pete, and just let me know when ready to order, the SUB does come with variations for coach internals, so just mention the unit you're modelling and will pick out the right vehicles for it!
And do look forward to seeing how you got on with both the NOL and I2, somewhat seeing how you tackle the front bogie for it heh
On another youtube channel, a young man 'Harrison' in Canada. He did a rebuild of several locomotives. HO scale. He uses tiny self-tapping screws for mounting wheeled carriage assemblies to the main chassis. Kind of makes things up as he goes. Your N scale's are impressive.
Might have a look at what might work for my items, currently for my coaches I just superglue a crude cross bar out of plasticard to keep the wheels on, might adjust the bogie pivots to allow a screw to be fitted.
Though will have to do some tests first but cheers for the suggestion!
Very nice! Thanks for sharing. Dave
Glad that you enjoyed it!
I think 3D is gonna create a lot of problems for the big brands which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Some brands just repainted models over and over again and charged ridiculous prices for them.
3D is turning out to be quite handy if you want more specific models on a normal budget, quite a fleet you're building.
The main market for 3d printing is for low volume items, since there's no tooling costs to recover, there's no such thing as "too few" to produce anything since it's all digital and printed on demand from a universal material.
I want to keep things at a more reasonable price, £30-40 a coach is far too much personally, more so when the cost of everything else has gone up!
And cheers very much, will be expanding my coach and EMU range more, do need to add some SECR coaches however, but will come in time!
@@GosportRailworks I hear you, I have certain models that go for ridiculous prices at Ebay or Catawiki.
Never paid top whack for them and have no intention to do so ever.
Luckily I'm easily pleased, I gladly buy cars from the bargain bin, 12 for 15 euros and just build a story around them about why they run in a specific train.
But there are great models in 3D printing and I can understand people getting bored with the same locos with only different colour schemes.
I'm keeping track on specific models in development in Z scale, hoping it all works out to get some very additions 😄
I keep looking at both my 4CEP models and thinking I only spent £140 on each of them, now they go £200+ each, but I'm now in the mindset that I can pretty much replace my RTR coaches with printed ones (slowly) as would give more variety then heh.
I can understand the main brands, they need to make a profit so have to aim for what will likely sell, but yes it does make things a bit samey in general.
And have been interested in looking at smaller scales, though will have to find space to put more layouts somewhere heh
@@GosportRailworks In my opinion main brands rely a bit too much on their name and not for producing new stuff.
Ofcourse there are brands that serve a small market eg British models but all production is abroad, they use older molds and perhaps they even use slave labour.
That doen't really justify these high prices.
Piko also has nice models but no way that I would pay 350 for a loco that even has fragile plastic gears.
I may have said it before, the Class 08 by GF looks great too but it somehow wouldn't feel right to spend that amount on a single locomotive.
Btw, Z has its advantages and with the right chassis you can build a decent setup in a limited space.
It's just a question of finding the right 3D kit to work on but the market is constantly developing.
Nearly forgot to reply, busy weekend, and that's pretty much most brands these days, too much relying on the goodwill they built up over the years only to waste it later on.
Hopefully some cheaper alternatives will help move things in a better direction, but will have to see.
Only model I paid that much for (outside the big one in the shed) was the Brighton Belle which looks great, but it's only features being that it lights up and despite power all the way through, pickup is only in the motor car, might make a replacement someday heh
I've been eyeing up T Gauge, mostly for making cityscape layouts or some other silly ideals I've got heh