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I'm not seeing any pending Ads BTB, but as the site was moving between servers for the last few hours, there is a chance you added it to the old server, and it's not on the new one

Ah here!

I had to flip the server to another set of virtual machines, tho the 'gap' where DNS was updating would have been of the order of between 2 and 30 minutes...

Eventually

A few weeks ago we sent out an email advising on the production progress of the A Class, which as made great strides in recent months. After a long slog of research, design, tooling, testing, tooling correction and decoration creation and correction, we are now finally in the latter stages of production before delivery. Of course, at each stage of the process there are always little factors that can trip you up, often outside our control, and a couple have surfaced since we last updated you. Once such area was some of the tampo printing, which we were not fully happy with, particularly with their clarity and crispness. We have instructed the factory to go back and correct these issues which they are currently doing. Perhaps we're a bit too perfectionist at times, but we want these looking the very best and accurate that they can be. Secondly, in the wake of the blockage of the Suez Canal by the "Ever Given" container ship last month, there is now a shortage of shipping containers in China, which will cause delays in shipping out any goods from the Far East right now. We have been advised by our shipping partner that normality in this regard will take 6-8 weeks to be restored. So, what does this mean for the As? We had hoped to have these delivered to Dublin by late May/early June, but with these hiccups we now envisage delivery of late July. We are very sorry for this delay, but between demands for better quality, finish and shipping delays we hope you can understand the reason for this slight delay. We thank you for your patience and assure you that they will be worth this additional blip. With A23r already sold out and others not too far behind the demand for these beauties is very strong indeed. Order yours by clicking here! View the full article

and in one piece too

You can buy from the accurascale site at the moment and fulfillment will take place from Dublin...

Thanks Bob! just wait until we turn to Irish steam!

We announced our first steam locomotive project, the GWR 78xx Manor Class 4-6-0 tender locomotives, back in early February and showed an early test shot of the completed tooling. Since that announcement we have made further progress, and can now show off a fully tooled sample with detail parts and etchings in place. Please note that this is a first casting from our tooling. There will be further refinements to plastic, die cast and etched parts, as well as tweaks to the tooling based on this first sample. However, we think you will agree that it is shaping up quite nicely indeed. As you can see, much use has been made of diecasting to ensure we pack as much weight as possible into the locomotive to aid traction as well as smooth and reliable running. High fidelity etched and plastic components add that extra finesse to elevate this model to the next level, giving our Manor a quality and robust feel. Of course, the first sample is a process of evaluating and assessing the tooling, and looking at what improvements can be made to the design. We have also listened to feedback from modellers, and along with our own improvements will be implementing as many of these upgrades as possible. This will include alternative driving wheels with no webbed areas opposite the balance weights and an alternative "1952" style firebox washout plug arrangement. We're also aiming to make the slidebars thicker to more accurately represent the real thing, remove the "cutouts" from the front of the cylinders, add the valve gear splashplate on the fireman's side, reinstate the missing central pipe on the cab backhead, reduce the length of the elongated rivets on the front running plate and add the lip to the front and rear of the raised section of the running plate over the cylinders. Last week saw us achieve another milestone with our Manor project as we travelled to the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway and recorded the sound of the beautiful 7820 "Dinmore Manor" for our DCC sound fitted locomotives. This locomotive is owned by Dinmore Manor Ltd. who have her in excellent fettle! She put on a cracking run under load for us so we could capture her bark when worked in anger. Check out both of these smashing preservation organisations and the fantastic work they do to keep our railway heritage alive. We consider sound accuracy a vital component in capturing any model, and we have some nice innovations planned for our Manors, just like our diesel and electric locomotives that we look forward to sharing with you as we progress with the project. Overall the model is progressing well and on schedule. We will bring you decorated and sound fitted samples very soon, and we are on course to deliver the finished models in Q4 2021. Excited? We are! you can place your order for your Accurascale Manor with your local stockist, or direct with a £30 deposit by clicking here. View the full article

Not to mention a raft of stock, coaches, multiple units and more

Perhaps the key is 'at some stage' tho it's likely to be a brand new model, and therefore maybe a decade away.

We're just moving from one physical cloud platform, to another, upgraded one in the same location . (More a tech refresh for the cloud provider than anything else) All going to plan, nothing will change

The web server is moving to a new cloud platform, which will take place at Saturday 24th - 6 PM (GMT+1) and be expected to cause at least 6 hours downtime. (Possibly longer as DNS updates occur)

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Not a lot happens in a week Per Fran's last post, the assembly is flying, and almost complete, and we're on schedule to leave the factory in about 3-4 weeks time.

Lol sorry. RMweb runs the same software and version we do

This forum bolds unread posts too?

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It will if you 'share your location' otherwise just enter the townland or area and it will show that

Considering the A leaves the factory in 3ish weeks time, I doubt it

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