Kiss Gem 4/4 801 Steinbock

[jonothan]

This arrived today from Berlin

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[jonothan]

...I'm delighted - a rather lovely model of the RhB Bernina electrodiesel.

It cost around £930 at today's exchange rate and it's been on order for some months - but worth the wait.

J


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[Gizzy]

Nice!

I assume it comes with both diesel and electric sounds too....

 

[mike]

you lucky man

 

[Zerogee]

Looks lovely!

What are Kiss like in terms of durability? I've heard people talking about Magnus (and Brawa, for that matter) stuff as being very fragile - almost too fragile to run outside - just wondered if you had to handle Kiss products equally carefully?
I'd dearly love one of their Mallets, but not at the prices they seem to go for......

Jon.

 

[stockers]

Lovely loco - nice one!.
Kiss stuff is pretty robust but of course with fine detail damage is always possible.

 

[funandtrains]

Looks lovely!

What are Kiss like in terms of durability? I've heard people talking about Magnus (and Brawa, for that matter) stuff as being very fragile - almost too fragile to run outside - just wondered if you had to handle Kiss products equally carefully?
I'd dearly love one of their Mallets, but not at the prices they seem to go for......

Jon.

I've got a big Kiss Rio Grande K-36 and only part has fallen off the rest is quite robust for a brass loco. The ESU decoder does not work properly on MTS though. The kiss plastic models are similar to Aristo-Craft in quality.
I also have the Brawa loco and one Magnus both of which are very fragile with parts falling off with the slightest touch.