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Badgerbits Update: November 2011
Written by Glenn Farrell | 
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| BadgerBits News - Announcements |
As Christmas approaches we at badgerbits.com.au thank all of you for your loyal support throughout 2011.
From December we will be stocking the Runway 13 range of airbrushes.
We expect to announce a new product in the near future. Keep your eyes peeled!
Our popular wheelsets (both 4 hole disc and 8 spoked) sold out some months ago; we expect more stocks in the New Year. If you visit the running gear section of our website and click on "notify me", you'll receive an email as soon as our inventory goes online.
Our popular N Cars are out of stock, however we have under development a new run of these with a new and easier way to construct them. Once this is released we'll make our other passenger cars the same way. Once again, visit the N Cars section of the site and click on "notify me" for instant notification the moment they become available.
A brief run down of other out-of-stock stock items:
- CW kits temporarily out of stock.
- GSV kits temporarily out of stock.
- BSV kits temporarily out of stock.
- 53 Class steam locomotive out of stock.
- FOs out of stock.
- TR47 bogies for the N Cars out of stock.
- The On30 Bli-Bli loco body has been discontinued and we have no stocks left.
Someone's turning 60 today!!!!!
Written by Little Badger | | |
| Blogs - The LittleBadger's Blog |
Hi one and all!
He doesn't (yet) know I've "outed" him, but today is Phil Badger's 60th birthday.
Phil is the principal of BadgerBits and Gopher Models and so we are all very excited.
The photo is from his "roasting" at his birthday party last Saturday night--strategically timed to be in the middle of the Liverpool Model Railway exhibition!
Please join me in wishing Phil a very Happy Birthday!
The Little Badger
Announcing our next RTR model
Written by Glenn Farrell | | |
| BadgerBits News - Announcements |
Announcing our next RTR model!
The drawings for our BCH/BWH/BRH ready-to-run wagons have been approved and the models should be available in the second quarter of 2012.
Some computer images are included below of the model. The models will feature full interior detail, diecast chassis (coloured blue in the drawings below). The chassis will give correct weight and a low centre of gravity. Correct bogies will be included and the model will come in a variety of colours with various numbers in packs of 5.
Click "read more" to see large images!
Product development update: 8 September 2011Written by Phil Badger | | |
I am just preparing some more decals for the 48/830 class and testing them. They will include for the 48 RSA (green and white), DEMC (blue and white), Rail Infrastructure Group and Rail Corp (orange and grey), AusTrac, Rail Services Australia, Grain Corp, Pacific National, ANR (maroon and silver, light yellow & black lettering) and G&W badging for AN Green. These are anticipated within 6 weeks. NSWGR C30T/SAR Rx class 4-6-0 locomotive kitWritten by Glenn Farrell | | |
BadgerBits is pleased to announce a new steam-outline kit due for release by the end of 2011: The NSWGR C30T / SAR Rx Class 4-6-0 tender locomotiveThe kit is primarily being developed to represent the NSWGR C30T locomotive, which was originally constructed as a 4-6-4T tank engine for hauling suburban trains in Sydney at the beginning of the 20th Century. Following the electrification of the Sydney suburban lines in the 1920s and 1930s, many surplus 4-6-4s were converted to tender locomotives for branch line running across NSW, a role in which they survived until the very end of steam on the NSWGR. Conveniently, the 1870s vintage Rx class of the South Australian Railways (designed by William Thow, who later moved to NSW and designed the C30 class tank loco) has a very similar wheel size and spacing, and so the Rx class will also be released as a kit concurrently with the C30T. NOTE: It has been reporte on various discussion groups that this locomotive release will be RTR (ready-to-run) under the RTR Gopher Models label. This is incorrect. It will be a kit release, under our BadgerBits label. 48 Class stock updateWritten by Glenn Farrell | | |
Stocks of certain releases of our Gopher Models 48 Class locomotive are running low. Here is the status as at 18 August 2011:
NSWGR 48 Class (DL531 Alco) RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC!Written by Glenn Farrell | | |
Yes they are now available! The Gopher Models NSWGR 48 Class / SAR 830s / Alco DL531. Find them in our shop under Gopher Models or from your retailer of choice. Shipments for retail stores and purchases from this site will commence on Monday 9 May. The Gopher Models 48 class can now be ordered from your retailer of choice and will be despatched to shops commencing next week. They are also available to order on this website.
Although factory fitted with Rapidos, they come with assembled Microtrains 1015s and air hose detail. The air hose detail was not factory added because it interferes with the operation of the Rapido couplers, being bogie mounted. The Microtrains are body mounted. Instructions for how to do this are included in the box.
The chassis are DCC ready to suit a DCS Z2 decoder.
Decals are included for the road number of your choice and the undecorated models have the appropriate decals for many variations including NSWGR 125th anniversary, NSW Bicentenary, AN 830s, SAR Mustard Pot, Silverton liveries.
The second shipment (the final 40%) is on its way and will land in Sydney next Thursday so full stocks will be available within a few weeks. The reverse scheme is in the second shipment.
Detail components for the modernised versions (eg satellite antenna, air conditioning unit, and catalytic converters etc) will be available within 4 weeks.
Note that not all items have a photograph yet and while the actual models colours are very accurate to the prototype, the photos have not necessarily conveyed that accuracy well. In other words, do not assume from the photos that the colours are not right! Note that to make an 830 you need to purchase a mark 2 undecorated. READ A TOTALLY BIASED REVIEW OF IT HERE, WRITTEN BY OUR WEB GUY. Here are some images to whet your appetite:
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