Model Railway News | April 2024 | Beware of Fake Dapol Models

All the latest model railway news from April 2024, including Bachmann's new Narrowgauge scale, the return of the Heljan class 28 Co-Bo, Hornby's latest TT announcements, and Dapol's warning of fake products!

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0:00 Intro
0:30 Bachmann
3:05 Heljan Co-Bo
5:41 Oxford Rail
6:49 Hornby TT 2024 range
11:37 Dapol

[Taggart]

I think Dapol had no choice but to go public so if people bought these models unknowingly and they had a problem with them and contacted Dapol, and then Dapol turned round and said they couldn't help them it could of reflected badly on them as the public could say they where unaware and weren't more vigilant about it.

[Taggart]

I saw the prototypes at Statfold for the 7mm quarry hunslets

[TrainMaster]

Bachmann introducing NG7, or O scale narrow gauge, is not a new concept. Bachmann has actually been making On30, US O scale narrow gauge, for years that run on HO track. I am surprised it has taken Bachmann this long to produce British narrow gauge.

[MachRacer]

For the Bachmann NG7 scale engines and rolling stock, it’s not the first time Bachmann has made O scale narrow gauge stuff. Here in the States, we have ON30 under Bachmann’s US range. My guess is they did this to have something similar over there in the UK.

[thomasthornton]

I think there’s a logic to Hornby TT going heavy on LNER, rather than offering not enough variety to build any layout they can produce enough variety to build an LNER layout. If they can’t produce the variety of all of it then it makes sense to target the niche that they have the resources to serve properly.

[RallyingSightsSounds]

Just to say Sam, Bachmann's new narrow gauge models aren't really in a new scale, they're O16.5, but they're using 'NG7' as a new brand for that. Given they currently market OO9, I wonder if that'll become NG4? Otherwise, it'll make even less sense... OO becoming SG4 maybe a little too far! Saw them at Statfold, they look great regardless.

[johndenbury]

O - 16.5 as 7 mm Scale is also supported by the Gauge O Guild and it's local Groups.

[andrewcutts]

Why, oh why didn’t Hornby bring out a ‘Bubble Car’ DMU to start with. That would have been great for a TT Scale branch line layout, or shelf layout which was one of the advantages of the scale originally mentioned by Simon Kohler.

[PaulBriden]

Your comment about the price of a single HST compared to the pack while correct is not in the real world. It happens all the time.

1) Fiat Pandas in January 2012 were £11, 000. Fiat in the March of the same year, because of the new model coming out, were outing them for £7500.00.

2) Jaguar did a similar thing with the X type, at the end of the run they came fully loaded for the same price as a lower spec model. I did not catch a cold, however, one of my friends was rather miffed to say the least.

3) The same with TV's, you buy a new tv for Xmas, in January the same TV is £500.00 less.

4) British Airways are the same, you pay for a Club seat in advance, then they do a sale and it is half the price.

There are loads of examples, it is called life.

[mysilentwake]

The Lionheart Manning Wardles are rtr O scale narrow gauge running on OO track. These were released fairly recently. In America it is called On30 and has been very popular. The UK has had the scale for a long time with Peco making 0-16.5 kits, but rtr is very recent.

[kclassproductions]

Great to see the HST pack! I actually commented on your review on the TT scale class 43’s weather or not there would be a pack

[patrickmurphy]

Your show is consistently professional. I enjoy your content. Please keep up the good work!

[muir]

Sam, something about the Chinese Dapols, they're likely to be the actual Dapol models, but they've been "rebranded" for the online market. Its happened before with different manufacturers. Remember these wagons are produced in healthy quantities and batches can get redirected through different channels

[Alpha-oo]

Dapol alerting people to fake models may tempt more people to hunt the fake locos down, but realistically they have to let people know these fakes exist. Otherwise, someone buys one, it breaks because it’s a knockoff, and they go to dapol to claim the warranty, and dapol can’t help them because it’s not a real dapol product. So yes, it may cause people to become aware of these fakes, but for reasons of warranty, probably for the best they alert their customers

[Alpha-oo]

Heljan posted a video on the rails of Sheffield YouTube channel and they basically gave updates and showed samples of almost EVERYTHING they have coming up over the next year, if you wanna check out what they’ve got coming up. Mostly diesels, with a couple of steamers.

[MrBnsftrain]

Did your Martin Mart-Martinson video from a few years ago predict these fake Dapol products?! I recall you used a Dapol box and put a kitbuilt 2-6-0 inside.

[ManOfUnknownWorth]

I'm sure that the Dapol announcement was made for legal reasons, as it protects Dapol from any liability for when something goes wrong with those fakes.

[darrenrees-sl]

Hornby could have had a whole new market of modellers coming in with the TT range, But i think they killed it with the prices. When you can get 00 at almost half the price.

[gs]

Surely the "new" bachmann scale is just old school 0-16.5 !!!

[DazO]

This is not a new scale in the UK its known as 0-16.5 and peco have made kits and other items for quite a while. The locos do look good, the only problem is the 009 quarry hunslet are no longer available.