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Originally Posted by John H-T
First: See the interview with Bachmann in September's Model Rail and Model Rail's review of the 47. Model Rail are always "picky" and highlight the faults in Bachmann's new offering. However they still rate it as the best 47 yet and give it 4 out of 5!
I will be quite happy to hand over the cash for the new Bachmann 47, but the Bachmann 37/4 comes first!
Getting Diesel right does seem to cause manufacturers more problems. I understand that the delay in producing the 150 by Bachmann is the result of difficulty in getting copies of all the neccessry drawings.
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I don't disagree. Mechanically, it will easily score over hornby & lima, all 3 score over the laughable heljan model.
But it still isn't the DEFINITIVE model. Just look at it, & then at a picture of a bufferbeam-fairing fitted 47. You'll see the error straight away, why didn't bachmann? I know of one drawing in existence that suggests these over-deep fairings, did bachmann work from these (solely??)
As for the 37/4, bachmanns 2nd attempt to get it right...
You've spoilt my day by hinting that bachmann will base their 150 model on drawings. I'm hoping their new model bears more resemblence to the prototype than the truly awful dapol 'offering'. I hope i'm not wrong...
I realise this sounds negative. I so hoped that bachmann could deliver a 47 to be proud of, even toying with investing in dcc to play with the sound fitted examples. I'm gutted. Would it be too much trouble for them to go to Loughborough or Butterley to spend the day with a tape measure & camera to check these things out?