Well, as anyone who went to Peterborough will now, we released a couple of kits and we're now taking orders for the others. So to update you on our current projects, here's a little post.
Ffestiniog Railway Coaches
The 5 FR Coaches are all progressing well. We're now in a position to start accepting orders for all 5 variants. We've formally released the first two with approximate release dates for the others.
BMF-001 Ffestiniog Railway Coach No.102 - Approximate Release Date End of August/Early September
BMF-002 Ffestiniog Railway Coach No.105 - Approximate Release Date End of May/Early June
BMF-003 Ffestiniog Railway Coach No.112 - Released
BMF-004 Ffestiniog Railway Coach No.114 - Released
BMF-005 Ffestiniog Railway Coach No.105 with Early sides - Approximate Release Date End of October/Early November
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Ffestiniog Railway Coaches 112 and 114. First images of Coach 105 are expected tail end of this week.
Chattenden and Upnor Coaches
The 3 C&U Coaches are all at the same stage they were at a few months ago. The first two are drawn up and awaiting checking before sending off for Prototypes. This is dependent on time/finances but we're hoping they'll surface the last quarter of this year.
BMU-001 Chattenden and Upnor Railway Coach 196/199 - Designed in 2D, awaiting prototyping
BMU-002 Chattenden and Upnor Railway Coach 200 - Designed in 2D, awaiting prototyping
BMu-003 Chattenden and Upnor Railway Coach 204 - Research underway
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Screenshot out of our CAD software showing 196's side pieces
Bowaters
Our range of Bowaters has stayed fairly consistent throughout the year although we are planning some additions over time. Mainly adding a third Preservation Era coach to the range along with a Pulp wagon Coal Conversion. Both projects are progressing well with research being undertaken on both at the present time. We're also working on our own Locomotive kit appropiately based on the Bowaters Battery Electric 'The Tank'. Its being sized around a IP Engineering chassis at first and we might explore our own at a later date.
BME-001 Bowaters Paper Railway 'The Tank' - 2D Design work in progress
BMC-004 SKLR Preservation Coach 626/633 as built - Released
BMC-005 SKLR Preservation Coach 626 as running today - Research in progress
BMC-006 SKLR Covered Coach 641 as running today - Released
BMW-006 Bowaters Paper Railway 20 Ton Bagnall Coal Wagon - Research in progress
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One of our current Bowaters range
Sandy River and Rangley Lakes
At the moment, this is a project that's very much a wait and see. We might progress with this one, we might not. The plan is to cover the 4 ex-Phillips and Rangeley Coaches built with the Domed Roofs with potenially others to follow later. We're still doing our research into these at the moment as well as working out the potenial demand. These will be long coaches (at 46 scale feet (736mm)) although they should look good with the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes engines from both LGB and Roundhouse. We are aware of the upcoming 7/8ths scale Sandy River Forney from Accucraft however we are not planning to produce any kits to run with the engine just yet. If you are interested in either a 16mm version or a potenial 7/8ths scale (Warning, these kits will be absolutely massive at over 1m long each in 7/8ths), please get in touch!
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Image of one of the prototype coaches preserved today in Maine. Image from wikipedia:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Nar ... oad_Museum
Shows
We've just come back from our first Peterborough and loved every second of it. We're hopefully looking into coming back next year alongside Narrow Planet once again although this will be commitment/diaries depending. We've only got one other show this year which is ExpoNG in October down in Kent. Once that show is out of the way, we're looking at our 2018 diary and starting to pencil one or two shows in already of which Peterborough is one of them.
To view our range, please visit our website at
www.bowatersmodels.co.uk or e-mail us at
info@bowatersmodels.co.uk if you have any questions.
Jon, Bowaters Models