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We're delighting to announce we've finally released the first phase of the Burma Mines Railway Range along with our 7/8ths Scale Bowaters Paper Railway redesign.

-Burma Mines Railway-

Designed by Richard Williams, these stock are amongst the highest detailed models currently available from Bowaters Models and are definitely a sign of things to come! Suitable for both 32mm and 45mm gauges, these wagons are the perfect addition to your garden railway for those looking for something different! Each wagon scales out at a scale 25ft long each. For those wondering, there are at least 1-2 more kits to go with these in the works for a release at a later date including a 4 wheeled version of the Bogie Van!

For those wondering, the minimum radius of these stock with the chopper couplings being used as supplied is 4ft. However, when you remove the springs from them, they will happily go around 38 inch radius curves.

The prices for them are as follows - The Flat Wagon is £45, the Coke (Open) Wagon is £50, the Tank wagon is £55 and Bogie Van is £65. All prices are for MDF with Plywood being £15 more. Please note, the MDF Bogie Van kit does include some Plywood parts to better represent the prototype

-7/8ths Scale Bowaters Paper Railway Rolling Stock Mark 2-

Designed in house by Jon, this stock represents a massive improvement over the original with a significantly improved design along with the correct pattern Bogies for the wagons in question. Covering the same 4 wagon designs, these wagons are suitable for both 32mm and 45mm gauges. These have a minimum radius of 5ft using chopper couplings with a much smaller radius being suitable using 3 link couplings. While there is no suitable motive power kit available yet, we are working on upscaling our Hudson Hunslet Victor kit in 16mm to 7/8ths scale to match these wagons. Details on Victor will follow at a later date. Same with our 16mm versions, these wagons come with Accucraft Chopper Couplings which are the correct style for the prototype. We are looking at some dumb buffer versions as a future release.

The prices for them are as follows - The Flat wagon is £60 in MDF and £75 in Plywood. The Pulp Wagons are £65 in MDF and £80 in Plywood. All kits are available without bogies and couplings.

You can find both ranges on our website today!

Burma Mines Railway - Burma Mines Railway

7/8ths Scale - 7/8ths Scale

 

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Our Black Friday Sale starts today! From right now until Midnight on the 30th of November, you can save 10% against the entire Bowaters Models Range! That includes our newly released Gauge 1 Continental Coaches all the way to our ever popular 16mm FR Coaches! The discount is applied automatically at checkout! To view our range, visit www.bowatersmodels.co.uk

 

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With the final kits cut and the rest either packed or waiting on final parts to arrive, Bowaters Models is done for 2020! And what a year its been. We officially are closed from December 18th until the 8th of January 2021 (3 weeks). We won't be doing any cutting or sending out new orders however we will be answering enquires and emails as well as working on some new kits! What new kits I hear you ask? Well Jon has a small list to be getting on with which are as follows!

15mm Scale - MNR Foxdale Coach
16mm Scale - B&SRR Coach 15/16
16mm Scale - B&SRR Baggage Car 31 (Render of which is included below! Sadly without the etched details due to software limitations)
16mm Scale - SR&RL Pullman Car 9 Rangeley (Jon's biting the bullet and getting it done!)
16mm Scale - SR&RL Combine 11
16mm Scale - SR&RL Coach 17/18
16mm Scale - Statfold Barn Plymouth 7/8
7/8ths Scale - Bowaters Paper Railway Hudson Hunslet 'Victor'
1:32 scale - Additional Southern Railway and Pre Grouping Wagons plus brake vans

As well as all that, Jon's going to be starting detailed looking at additional Gauge 1 Coaches covering LB&SCR, LSWR and Southern Railway Prototypes! Which ones will be confirmed once the prototypes are built some time early next year.
We thank all our customers for their custom this year and we look forward to serving you next year!
However, Jon is also taking this opportunity to say a massive thank you to the members of Guildford Model Engineering Club's Garden Railway group for all the help, support, feedback and general encouragement given over this year. It is very safe to say, without their words of wisdom, the Gauge 1 range would not be what it is today (and will continue to grow into) as well as loaning the occasional steam engine for photographs and test running. A massive thank you to you all! In particular, a massive thank you Chris, Roger, Richard, Kim, Both Grahams, Adrian, Gerald, Alan, Bill, James, Matt and all the other members who's names Jon forgot while writing this who during the Zoom calls who gave valuable feedback as well as early constructive criticism during all the G1 development process to date.

 

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We're back and what a way to say we're back! We're delighted to reveal the latest Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad/Bridgton and Saco River Railroad Passenger Cars! Covering Sandy River Combine 11, Coaches 17/18 and Bridgton Coaches 15/16 and Baggage Car 31. All kits come complete with bogies in either 32mm or 45mm and Accucraft couplings complete with a representative interior.

To follow later this year will be Pullman Car Rangeley which will be one of the highest detailed kits we have ever produced in 16mm scale (hence why its taking so long).

All are priced the same as the existing coaches at £120 in MDF or £140 in Plywood. All kits are available now and we will ship worldwide! We have also edited the Passenger Coach Multipacks to include the newly released coaches including adding a Bridgton Passenger multipack for the first time! To view the full ranges, click on the links below!

Our latest releases - Latest Releases
B&SRR - Bridgton and Saco River Railroad
SR&RL - Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad

 

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Available now from Bowaters Models! Our next 15mm scale coach this time covering the Foxdale coach from the Isle of Man! Available in both MDF and Plywood, this coach is the perfect addition for the Accucraft Caledonia and is a one coach train in its own right!

Priced at £100 in MDF and £120 in Plywood coming complete with bogies and Couplings. Customers also have a choice of two different buffer beams to allow for prototypical and 16mm coupling heights. Please note, the bogies come with Glass filled resin wheels as standard.

Available from our website today! - 15mm Scale Isle of Man Railway Manx Northern 'Foxdale' Coach

 

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Now live is our Spring sale! Save 10% off all Bowaters Models products on our website! All kits are available in both MDF and Plywood! To view the entire range, visit our website at www.bowatersmodels.co.uk ! The discount is applied automatically at checkout!

We've been asked, 'Can I order during your current sale and collect my order at Peterborough?' Yes. Yes you can. Just add a note to your order and or drop us a message at the time of ordering and it will be prepared for collection at the show! This applies to the entire range not just the models currently reduced! We will continue to accept orders for the show up till at least a month before the show date (if we can fit more orders in, we will). Have any questions? Let us know!

 

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New from Bowaters Models, 2 7/8ths Scale Engines and a range of freelance passenger coaches!

To start with the motive power....

First up, is our Bowaters Paper Railway Hudson Hunslet 'Victor'. Available in plastic with either 32mm gauge or 45mm gauge chassis (you'll get the wider chassis by default but the wheels can be positioned for 32mm easily) with motor, wheels, 4w drive and bearings. You will also have the option of a Loco remote including one with sound recorded from the real engine! Price for the complete kit is £250.

Next up, is our Royal Naval Armament Deport Hunslet 'Barton Hall'. Available in plastic with either 32mm gauge or 45mm gauge chassis (you'll get the wider chassis by default but the wheels can be positioned for 32mm easily) with motor, wheels, 4w drive and bearings. You will also have the option of a Loco remote and we are working on including one with sound recorded from the real engine once it re-enters traffic. Price for the complete kit is £250.

Moving onto 16mm.....

Our range of 4 Freelance Corridor Coaches are based on our SAR coaches (which have returned if you haven't noticed after a lot of people requesting them). Covering the 1st class coaches with the V2 also converted, they're all available in MDF and Plywood with appropriate Bogies, Vacuum Pipes and Accucraft Chopper couplings. These models are effectively proto-lance.

We've also at the request of a customer, created 2 freelance 4w coaches! Complete with beading, wheels, bearings and Accucraft Chopper couplings, these coaches are on the larger side for 4w coaches but we can happily scale these coaches to 2 compartment and 4 compartment with bogies. These are also available in MDF and Plywood.

For full details, see our website! - www.bowatersmodels.co.uk

 

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That’s your lot. The final 2 internally designed 16mm kits for a period (to be reviewed in a year) although there are a couple of exceptions but they’re SKLR related kits.

New from Bowaters Models, the Snailbeach hoppers! Available in Plywood only in either 32mm or 45mm gauges, they’re a combination of laser cutting and 3D printing. They will come complete with wheels/axles/bearings and you can choose to either have Accucraft Chopper couplings or supply your own. There are two chassis designs. Design A that is designed for under chassis mounted couplings (such as those fitted to FR slate wagons) and Design B designed for Accucraft Chopper Couplings. Both variants are priced at £40 each and there will be a discount of buy 5 and get the 6th free applied automatically at checkout!

They are not going on the website yet (I want to get the backlog cleared before then because we’re still a couple of weeks behind) but we will be restricting numbers of these produced to keep production in check. We are at our limits when it comes to print capacity hence the more popular products are now being restricted (this is why it’s only 6 class 33s/91s (and 73s when released)). We will do 80 in the first month and then 40 a month after that. Please note these are the we are definitely doing that number. Any spare capacity will be dealt with in order number. Naturally, once we have a extra 3D printer (or 2 depending on space when we’re able to sort out some storage issues…..), then we can up the numbers accordingly or remove them completely depending on our average workload.
Estimated release date - 29th October 2020 alongside Rangeley and our mystery Gauge 1 coach!