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In the same period I’ve seen our energy bills triple and food shops probably the same. It’s all relative. Not the end of the world just inflation.

Yes we’ve seen direct costs in china and germany (esu) rise by at least that in the period. A raft of wage increases and state mandated changes have driven labour costs in the factories quite a bit more than even Western inflation.

Uk consumer price inflation since that original 92 price is running at a little north of 37%. My point is that the ‘base cost’ of the 92 should be around £250 these days before you add a decoder at all. Another manufacturer just launched a scottish steam engine that’s 250 quid and it doesn’t even have a tender. Well happily take all the kicking once we can continue keeping pricing well below where it should be and selling out as a result to the 90%

Can you share some example links? The only time there should be a link is if the linked image is gone

I wouldn’t call it a kicking when it’s a handful of Dc posters (the 10%) and look again at the class 89 for where prices are regardless. With no decoder the 92 would be £214.95 at least either way certainly not a £40 difference.

For complex models like the 92 with pantographs and that needs to body off to access a decoder then yes, we won’t be selling any future models without a decoder on. board. Having shipped a very large volume of locos now our own data tells us that ‘actual’ DC models is around the 10% mark and of that percentage you have to include models that will remain on a shelf or in a box. For the prototypes we are doing it makes less sense to have to design bespoke DC blanking chips with a dozen manual switches and all the ensuing support work from trying to support third party decoders etc. For easy to access decoder sockets and less complex locos we don’t plan on changing any time soon but it’s something we review constantly.

The base model includes all the technology, stay alive, large speaker and sugar cube speaker and two independently motorised pantographs and full lighting suite and an ESU lokpilot for a snip at just £229.95 Considering the LokPilot is £39.95 and the accurathrash is £12.95 you’re actually getting the model for a price less than it should be (and the same as a much more comparable class 89 without a chip and with only one panto)

Bear in mind those aren’t photos they are colour CAD renders .

The small speaker is fitted on all models. The sound version also has the accurathrash large speaker fitted which you can also add after the fact.

Fwiw the rrp was always €124.95 for the triple pack. Any difference to that was a systems failure in not charging the Vat ( or correct if you are outside the EU obviously) €40 a wagon for a niche like ours is rediculous value when you compare the UK equivalents.

What price change? All the bulleid range was launched at €124.95 / £109.95 All that’s happened in the mean time is the euro has devalued a little against the GBP so that £109.95 is now about a fiver more in euro. No actual price change and still exceptional value, especially when you can get 10% off with two packs and 15% for five or more dropping g the price to just £ 31.15 / € 36.80ish per wagon. Thats before loyalty points on top.

Should be all sorted out now

As is says, we have a detailed update and fresh photos and production samples to share very shortly, and we still expect delivery this year.

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Any paid preorders will be clear before the end of the week. Worth double checking the order status in the account area just to be sure all in order too?

Exactly that. The final samples are getting photographed now.

Yep we ran out of storage, had to crank 'er up to 1.21 gigawatts!

Hopefully they’re not actually ‘in tooling’ in that case or eventually see the merit of laser scans to ‘check the homework’ otherwise i expect it might be three for three on dimensional and shape errors.

No the body sits ok, it’s just the wrong shape. The danger when you measure and eyeball rather than laser scan too as we found to our own peril in the early days. The roof is a complex set of curves not just a dome for example. As i said my detail brain gets upset when things are blatantly inaccurate but im sure some will find it tolerable.

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/186634-class-60-by-accurascale/?do=findComment&comment=5907663

First thousand or so and most retailers already away If you read on you can see the ‘opinion’ is nullified by the cold hard data of laser scans overlaid on CAD confirming the accuracy of the acc (and the Hornby one, those lads knew how to make a model)

In the 60 just put it beside a hornby or accurascale and the error will be self explanatory

some interesting photos on the accurascale 60 threads as an example but generally you get attacked for suggesting the emperor has no clothes

Lol. Bach I know have many 46’s coming in a steady flow over the coming years. Will be interesting to see how it goes particularly as the track record isn’t great with accuracy with the other chaps

It’s just under 2mm and perhaps i’m a little OCD but the cab overhang on both ends is totally jarring. They did confirm in an article with Andy York (rip) it’s been retooled for this next run so we live in hope. On the 47 the bachmann is brand new tooling and Heljan are in the mix but at the current status it’s 2-3 years out for this new effort.