What did you order or the post deliver? (Worldwide Models)

[disturbman]

Gotten my (personal) hands on a ModuFactor generator car, as well as one of Changming's offline sales only 6K from the new production run. And the generator car is as expected absolutely amazing; details are super fine and crisp. And it also come with a pre-fitted two-tone LED interior lighting board, which I wish would be available for some Japanese models.

 

 

Now I need a rack of 25G passenger coaches. The wait begins...

[Bigdog]

On 2/9/2025 at 6:33 PM, disturbman said:

@Bigdog He pre-ordered it. Afaik, they are about sold out worldwide. Only J-scale have a handful still available, but these haven't arrived yet. We are working on the shipping preparations. Maybe you can try CNRailModel, but I'm pretty sure Jacky is sold out as well.

There will be a version by Kunter scheduled to be released this year, but I'm not sure I should advertise it. Kunter has proven to be a very toxic manufacturer and I'm ambivalent about promoting their products.

Thanks for that, I have never seen them on pre order let alone sitting on shelves. I have had experience with Kunter and I realised that they do live up to there name.

[disturbman]

They were on pre-orders for about two weeks two year ago. In general, CM products and CR models don't sit on shelves as demands exceeds production, at least for first production runs. But I think the market is growing as the second run of the 6K sold out instantly in the Mainland/HK.

[Nozomi329]

On 2/9/2025 at 4:08 AM, tripel7 said:

Changming CR400AF

Did you get to test it? Some Chinese sources suggest it comes with some design flaws with couplers resulting in more likely derailment, others complained about difficult interior access.

On 2/9/2025 at 6:33 PM, disturbman said:

toxic manufacturer

Kunter surely has its dark history, although CM's also toxic in its own way. My take is that they're both relatively new & small businesses with their own innovations and problems, sometimes unfortunately fueled by the much less reasoning Chinese discussion atmosphere.

[disturbman]

I'm curious to see how these "issues" hold up in reality. I think the main issue is the front lights design which overly dimmed the light produced by the light unit. But from from what I have heard, that couldn't be designed otherwise.

 

On 2/16/2025 at 6:19 AM, Nozomi329 said:

Kunter surely has its dark history, although CM's also toxic in its own way. My take is that they're both relatively new & small businesses with their own innovations and problems, sometimes unfortunately fueled by the much less reasoning Chinese discussion atmosphere.

 

The issues with Kunter goes beyond this. They have threatened and tried to bully CM and ModuFactor (I have seen the screenshots). They also have been very predatory in the way they price their sets and interacts with shops. The generator cars famously went up in price as stock diminished, they also have informed a shop that they wouldn't fulfill all their orders and that they should tell their customers to buy directly from their own TaoBao shop.

This is what I mean by toxic. They are not a manufacturer I want to support.

For CM, my main issue is that nobody can really out compete them at the moment. Maybe Bachmann could if they cared enough to invest in N, but all the other players are too small to fight against them. I think Minitown shouldn't have cancelled their DF11, there are enough people preferring their products for them to be successful.

Edited Monday at 08:10 PM by disturbman

[tripel7]

On 2/16/2025 at 6:19 AM, Nozomi329 said:

Did you get to test it? Some Chinese sources suggest it comes with some design flaws with couplers resulting in more likely derailment, others complained about difficult interior access.

Not yet, but likely soon