Steph Dale
Western Thunderer
Goodness, it's a while since this thread has been updated isn't it...?
For the record (and to complete the story so far) the Bulleid Light Pacific, Princess Coronation, GWR Broad Gauge Rover and V2 have all made it into production alongside the Adams Radial tank, Adams T3 4-4-0 and Drummond M7. A new kit for the Drummond-boiler variants of the Adams Radial also crept out at the back end of last year. We now have in hand most of the rest of the range for reintroduction, there'll be more news as they become available.
We're also continuing to look at new projects, most of which have been revealed here on WT. One thing that we'll be doing is producing lost wax cast inside motion sets for our kits and it's something that is currently being prepared where applicable for the new releases.
To that end we've had produced a couple of one-piece crank axles:
The process used provides a great deal of design flexibility so a variety of crank axles can be produced on-demand to allow for prototype variation, including allowing the correct phasing of eccentrics and crank web outline. The parts are produced to a universal geometry allowing them to be used in both Finescale and Scale Seven models, for use with our future cast inside valvegear or that from other manufacturers.
Custom geometries and prototype arrangements can be developed to order, we're expecting something like a six week turnaround for any style as each is individually produced.
Initial availability is for LSWR types as I have the information to hand for many locomotives, the examples shown above are for the Adams G6/O2 classes; the top is the 'as built' style (probably also suitable for some GER and NER locos), the lower the 'built up' style used for renewals. There are other LSWR types for the 4-4-0 locos which are also available in this first series.
I'll have the samples shown here with me on Saturday at Doncaster show if you'd like to see them.
Steph
For the record (and to complete the story so far) the Bulleid Light Pacific, Princess Coronation, GWR Broad Gauge Rover and V2 have all made it into production alongside the Adams Radial tank, Adams T3 4-4-0 and Drummond M7. A new kit for the Drummond-boiler variants of the Adams Radial also crept out at the back end of last year. We now have in hand most of the rest of the range for reintroduction, there'll be more news as they become available.
We're also continuing to look at new projects, most of which have been revealed here on WT. One thing that we'll be doing is producing lost wax cast inside motion sets for our kits and it's something that is currently being prepared where applicable for the new releases.
To that end we've had produced a couple of one-piece crank axles:
The process used provides a great deal of design flexibility so a variety of crank axles can be produced on-demand to allow for prototype variation, including allowing the correct phasing of eccentrics and crank web outline. The parts are produced to a universal geometry allowing them to be used in both Finescale and Scale Seven models, for use with our future cast inside valvegear or that from other manufacturers.
Custom geometries and prototype arrangements can be developed to order, we're expecting something like a six week turnaround for any style as each is individually produced.
Initial availability is for LSWR types as I have the information to hand for many locomotives, the examples shown above are for the Adams G6/O2 classes; the top is the 'as built' style (probably also suitable for some GER and NER locos), the lower the 'built up' style used for renewals. There are other LSWR types for the 4-4-0 locos which are also available in this first series.
I'll have the samples shown here with me on Saturday at Doncaster show if you'd like to see them.
Steph
