Cavalex Class 60

[DJ Dangerous]

Thank Crunchie it’s Friday…

Cavalex Class 60 no. 60087 arrived from Rails of Sheffield today.

Colour scheme even looks a bit like Crunchie.

€65 handling fee to DHL, plus import taxes, so it had better not frikkin’ sound crunchy.

But, it was my error clicking on DHL instead of Royal Mail, so my own fault.

Absolutely beautiful model.

Cavalex packaging is like Heljan’s O Gauge packaging, and is the best out there.

My only irk with the packaging, as with Accurascale’s, is that it’s so wastefully over-sized. Maybe Cavalex are a smidge less wasteful than Accurascale, but this oversized packaging thing needs to stop.

Won’t get to run 60087 for a while, but it is absolutely beautiful.

It also feels quite sturdy, no bits floating around in the box, no bits falling off on handling.

The pipework looks and feels moulded rather than loose, so no fear in touching the bogies when handling.

Not getting the calipers out, not going through all of the RMWeb drama queen bull crap, you can read it here and here if you like, I’m just so happy with the look and feel of the model.

 

[DiveController]

Nice looking model! I do like that livery. Unfortunately no longer into British outline for a couple of decades now, and funds have to be apportioned somewhere, so Irish it is for now. Looks to be decent pricing seeing as everything has really hit the eBay prices everyone used to complain about.