Darklighter Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Toni is right: http://www.lemkecollection.de/shop/index.php?page=product&info=5163 Link to comment
Kabutoni Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 So I herd u want taanteeburu? Link to comment
Ochanomizu Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I wonder if it will be available with DCC? Link to comment
katoftw Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Orient Express sets now available to reserve on Hobby Search. Their listing also has a small explaination for the 13/15 car issue. Anything find it weird that Kato are offering the cars, but not the loco to pull it? Link to comment
Sinus Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 not any longer - sold out Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Well.. Went ahead and pre-ordered that E655 and emperor's car.. Couldn't resist ;) Link to comment
IST Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 not any longer - sold out Wow, THAT was quick. I have just read the info. (I did not plan to buy the sets, I am just really surprised this very fast sold out status.) Link to comment
katoftw Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 that didn't take long, about 4 hours in total. Link to comment
westfalen Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Orient Express sets now available to reserve on Hobby Search. Their listing also has a small explaination for the 13/15 car issue. Anything find it weird that Kato are offering the cars, but not the loco to pull it? What loco would they do out of all the countries from France to China that the train ran through? Link to comment
Sinus Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I remember the same situation was with previous release of Orient express. I was lucky to order it from hs but it was the matter of hours or even minutes. This time I pre-order both e655 and Orient express from Nariichi san of Model Train Plus. Link to comment
Densha Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 If I have to believe the importer's website this BR110 was the loco that pulled in Germany: http://www.lemkecollection.de/shop/index.php?page=product&info=5130 Link to comment
kvp Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Different locomotives were used for each country. For germany, they used a br110, then each country used their own loco, including changing the whole set to wide bogies at the soviet border, back to normal at the other end, then to cape gauge after unloading in Japan. 1 Link to comment
katoftw Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 What loco would they do out of all the countries from France to China that the train ran through? one of them? all of them? the japanese loco? Link to comment
westfalen Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Actually a Japanese Loco wouldn't be appropriate if the set represents the train as it traveled from Paris to Hong Kong. Doesn't matter anyway, HS has closed reservations all ready. 1 Link to comment
Sinus Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 But HS is not the only source. Link to comment
kvp Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I think the bogies should be checked first. If they are the standard gauge ones, then any european locomotive of that period used on mainlines are good. If they are the broad gauge ones, then i suggest soviet locomotives used on the asian part of the soviet network, usually large diesels. If the bogies are cape gauge, then it's not really prototypical. Imho kato has been tryting to serve the european market here, like they did with the various tgv and eurostar sets. Btw: Is the set 1:150 or 1:160? Because if it's 1:150, then anything other than an english loco (1:148-1:150) would look slightly funny... Link to comment
Fenway Park Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Are Kato making these sets for Lemke or whoever their distributor is in the EU? If so then these will be to 1/160 and not 1/150. That may also explain why HS sold out so quickly. Malcolm Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Fairly certain they're using the same tooling as for their previous versions with the exceptions of the additional/changed cars. Looking at the set I have, it might be possible they actually did the 2 Japanese conversion cars in 1:150, and the actual Orient Express cars in 1:160. The cars look perfectly fine being pulled by a Minitrix streamlined steamer on my father's layout at least. Link to comment
katoftw Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 The Kato EH500 is meant to be re-released in late March, but haven't seen no retailers doing pre-orders yet. Anyone seen any? I've shot HS an email regard this. Kato website was updated 12/2/14 and it is scheduled for mid March re-release. Link to comment
Guest keio6000 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) Happy banana dance! modeltrainsplus now shows the Eidan 6000 now available from Kato! Of course, the joy is a little bit less because these are also avaialble from MicroAce, but as good as the MA ones are, I suspect the Kato ones will be, as usual, just a little bit better, and also cheaper. This is probably on my to-buy list as it's the Eidan version and right now i have the tokyo metro version from MicroAce. If Kato was clever, they'd very quickly tool up an Eidan 8000 Hanzomon line version and sell this before MicroAce does theirs (serves MicroAce right for wasting time with the silly "Tozai line" version which server for all of 9 months). Also, Kato should eventually do a "Fukutoshin line" (by which i mean brown/yellow stripe) 7000 version as the microace version is currently selling for crazy sums on yahoo jp (while the essentially idental yellow line yurakucho version, oddly, sells at a discount). I know my posts about Tokyo subway releases are often greeted with indifference here, but it's a bit of a shame - kato's subway releases in my view as a group rank - and I'm really serious about this - amongst the best N scale releases of anything, anywhere. They're just amazingly good and at really good value, too. hopefully it's making business sense for kato to put them out, as then number of potential customers familiar with the tokyo subway system must be massive, compared to some lonely 2-car JR emu. Edited February 13, 2014 by keio6000 1 Link to comment
Guest Closed Account 1 Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Wholly moley! Just about all the new Kato's are available today. Including the E7. http://www.katomodels.com/distribution/schedule.shtml Link to comment
katoftw Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Wholly moley! Just about all the new Kato's are available today. Including the E7. http://www.katomodels.com/distribution/schedule.shtml Doesn't to me. E7 has been pushed back to June. Link to comment
Guest Closed Account 1 Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Whatever the page was mostly pink this morning. I don't read Japanese. Link to comment
Melandir Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 E7 pushed to June, I have it on preorder and I got an email informing that release has been postponed Link to comment
katoftw Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Whatever the page was mostly pink this morning. I don't read Japanese. I dont read Japanese either. But your english seems alright. So check their english site for what pink means. Link to comment
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