that's because Montréal Loco Works didn't have to sub-let construction to China!I am betting on a September delivery. Maybe just in time to go on sale at Liverpuddle.
It would be nice to think that a delivery in August is a reality, I will believe it when mine arrive and are sitting in front of me.
Another update on our paid for 40 class orders: http://eurekamodels.blogspot.com.au/Silver wheels that has put me off a bit and I have to agree that blackened ones would be much better. Silver wheels will make it look like a toy straight out of the box. Sure you can paint them but who wants to disassemble a brand new model just to get the wheels black. Very sad indeed and a bit of a poor show really!
See more detail on blogspot.
Assembly of the 40 class is proceeding at a fast pace at the factory. The latest step in the process is the completion of assembly of the gear boxes for the full production run.
As part of this assembly process an extensive process of testing of the gear boxes has been carried out. Several chassis have been run for hundreds of hours on the factory's test track with the tick of approval being given to the gear boxes.
The next step in the assembly process, the assembly of chassis's has commenced. Current progress is in line with completion of assembly in mid-July and delivery at Port Botany around mid-August.
SILVER WHEELS??? being put on models in 2017?? Blacked would have been so much better/ Like the ones in two of the Eureka website photos for the 40 class. Yet ANOTHER disappointment from Eureka. L
Does anyone know whether the Eureka R Class Steam locomotive takes a 21 pin or 8 pin DCC decoder?As per the review in AMRM it's an 8 pin socket in the tender. I fitted a TCS DP2X decoder.
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you'd think they could have attached the bogie side frames properly for the photo!I would be happy if they left the side frames off so when it arrives less handling to do so I can blacken and weather the wheels and hide the brass bits . Oh better order one then . They will look good heavily weathered .
I know the high ride height SUV trend has taken over the roads, but the railways, really???I was not going to comment, but there are some bloopers with the models, the wording that comes with the blog says they are production models, I certainly hope that's not the case owing to the way they sit high, but there are a couple of other items that make me wonder just how far into the production run they come from, firstly with the original delivery green one is the cut down air horns as shown.
I never much see the point in posting negative comments, but after seeing those photos, I'm just hoping those three samples are not indicative of the production run …………
The brass contact strips and the wheels can be fixed, not sure what one does about the height issue, certainly not an easy fix.
The worst one though is the red version. I have not seen a photo that shows any 40cl with that shade of red, while it may be the camera settings or something but gee its much too bright in that shot. Even after overhauls the shade they were painted in was generally different to other diesels, but never as bright red tones as that. Hope to be proven wrong though.From my experience, certain shades of red are very difficult to capture accurately with the common point-and-shoot or phone digital cameras. I'd recommend emailing Eureka to ask if that is true-to-colour.
I think that latest photo of the red version may well be a photographic problem, looking at some previous photos the shade looks quite a bit darker.The worst one though is the red version. I have not seen a photo that shows any 40cl with that shade of red, while it may be the camera settings or something but gee its much too bright in that shot. Even after overhauls the shade they were painted in was generally different to other diesels, but never as bright red tones as that. Hope to be proven wrong though.From my experience, certain shades of red are very difficult to capture accurately with the common point-and-shoot or phone digital cameras. I'd recommend emailing Eureka to ask if that is true-to-colour.
I was not going to comment, but there are some bloopers with the models, the wording that comes with the blog says they are production models, I certainly hope that's not the case owing to the way they sit high, but there are a couple of other items that make me wonder just how far into the production run they come from, firstly with the original delivery green one is the cut down air horns as shown.I wondered about the horns on the green version, looking through all of the photographs I have, anything close to as delivered condition shows them with five-chime horns, the only photograph I have found so far with the cut down horns is of 4011 in 1969, which is definitely not in green.
http://eurekamodels.blogspot.com.au/
Why I said the camera aspect. The batch lot pics in the 2nd photo is certainly more the correct shadeI think that latest photo of the red version may well be a photographic problem, looking at some previous photos the shade looks quite a bit darker.The worst one though is the red version. I have not seen a photo that shows any 40cl with that shade of red, while it may be the camera settings or something but gee its much too bright in that shot. Even after overhauls the shade they were painted in was generally different to other diesels, but never as bright red tones as that. Hope to be proven wrong though.From my experience, certain shades of red are very difficult to capture accurately with the common point-and-shoot or phone digital cameras. I'd recommend emailing Eureka to ask if that is true-to-colour.
And I spotted the difference in the three photos on Eureka Blog. Photo two has the water tower missing.Good pick up and likely the bodies just sit on top of the chassis
Hopefully they used the same chassis and plonked the three different bodies on top for the three photos. I live in hope.
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