LGB Steam Tram 2022

tac foley said:
Now THAT looks more like eu5000-worth!!!!!! Maybe more.....
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Yes, if you buy both versions it would cost more than eu5000.

Price for each model at Modellbahnshop Lippe is eu3690, expected price for each model purchased from some dealers in the UK is £3750 although Gaugemaster show them at £4040 each with Garden Railway Specialists showing £4092.64..........
 
Is there to be no end of rising and ridiculous prices ?
 
AustrianNG said:
I like this DR version.....

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OK, yes, you can see a fair amount of detail in the model, and the colour scheme does tend to help it .............. a bit


but it's still b****y ugly.

I mean, people used to moan about the Bachmann 45 tonner, but I think this takes the biscuit. It's even uglier than a Citroen 2CV o_Oo_Oo_O

It then begs the question (like the 45 tonner) with all the available prototypes to model, why this thing?
 
Rhinochugger said:
OK, yes, you can see a fair amount of detail in the model, and the colour scheme does tend to help it .............. a bit


but it's still b****y ugly.

I mean, people used to moan about the Bachmann 45 tonner, but I think this takes the biscuit. It's even uglier than a Citroen 2CV o_Oo_Oo_O

It then begs the question (like the 45 tonner) with all the available prototypes to model, why this thing?
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Yes but is it as ugly as the Renault 4L
 
JimmyB said:
Yes but is it as ugly as the Renault 4L
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Oh sorry must disagree, I had 2 Renault 4L’s the second was the best with canvas seats that I could remove with just 1 screw, great for taking my 0 gauge exhibition layout on the circuit. All 20 foot of it with all the patafanalia and an assistant operator. Greatest car ever. If they had had still been making them when I bought my Smart in 2009 it would have involved lots of heartache to decide which one.
 
Dear Mr Kent Keith - many thanks for telling us those prices - I can see that I'm probably not going to get 'tram'pled on by the stampede of desprit tram fans waving their plastic in the air. Personally, although I'm intrigued by a model that is so hideous that it's actually quite attractive, in its own way, £4000 or so might as well be £4 Million to me. Unlike my NG/G16 loco, that originally cost about the same as that, the prototype doesn't even move under its own steam, and is likely never to do so again. Another downer for me is that all the usual wiggly bits that add so much to the occasion of running a live steamer lie hidden behind horse-friendly tin 'curtains'.

You can have mine in good health. :)
 
Sorry, although I 'prefer' the DR version, it appears to me, that if you were to paint the red bit, a dark muddy-water colour, put it in a puddle, with a cannon mounted on each end...

It could pass as some-sort of American Civil War, monitor.... :wondering::eek::think::think:

But then I have had a strenuous day, and am probably due some medication.. ;)

PhilP
 
Madman said:
Is there to be no end of rising and ridiculous prices ?
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Probably not but they will still sell out l'm sure. This loco is not for me though. I did think seriously about the new LGB Saxon VIIK at "only" £2K but then I thought better of it.
 
I'd love to have the black DR one, but to afford it I'd have to sell half a dozen other locos... so not going to happen!

Jon.
 
Yet another sell out, just like the plastic snowblower, or the golden spike set..
When will lgb learn.
 
For those of us who still work the price isn't so bad when you consider how much the hourly rates have rocketed up in the past 12 months.
 
TBH it doesn't really look robust enough for the rough and tumble of garden life, all those bits hanging of it. As for looks, we'll beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so someone, somewhere will love it
 
The announcement of this was more than a little bit annoying as I've spent lockdown designing and having 3d printed my own version though it'll end up costing somewhat less. I also would have expected a little more attention to detail , if you look at the photos of the LGB version the cylinders don't appear to line up with the centre of the driving wheels, they should be canted down ever so slightly. Heres mine awaiting handrails and RC gear. The colours out of my tablet camera are a bit garish I wasn't quite certain was shade green as the original is in a bit of a state. My model was by the was scaled completely from photos on the internet with a bit of rubber ruler involved to fit two standard LGB motor blocks WIN_20211210_11_34_55_Pro (2).jpg
 
Looks like the Saxion and Swiss are the most popular railways and Marklin dares to release High-end Metall models for. They dont see KISS as a competitor. A metall modell of the HSB 5-kuppler has been released in coop with Aster, so i dont expect a re-release. There are a lot of other prototypes to modell, but numbers will be to low.
 
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polaroyd said:
The announcement of this was more than a little bit annoying as I've spent lockdown designing and having 3d printed my own version though it'll end up costing somewhat less. I also would have expected a little more attention to detail , if you look at the photos of the LGB version the cylinders don't appear to line up with the centre of the driving wheels, they should be canted down ever so slightly. Heres mine awaiting handrails and RC gear. The colours out of my tablet camera are a bit garish I wasn't quite certain was shade green as the original is in a bit of a state. My model was by the was scaled completely from photos on the internet with a bit of rubber ruler involved to fit two standard LGB motor blocks View attachment 295593
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That looks to be shaping up into a very nice model. I can understand your chagrin at LGB's release of the model, but hope that yours will be significantly less expensive rather than just "somewhat less."
 
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