LGB Limited edition - IIm scale Steam Rotary snow plough/plow

Theoretically speaking, in case Mrs tac is keeping her beady eye-trumpets on me on another computer, I could buy it in Oregon and bring it home, and then pay the 20% VAT - even a little import duty, and it would STILL be cheaper than here.

Same for buying it in The Fatherland, even flying to Nurnberg to collect it, after a decent meal and an overnight stay in a reasonable guest house, I'd be saving loadsa money over the somwhat adventurous UK price.

I am saved, however, by an total almost total lack of interest in the RhB, of which this model, were I to be sufficiently inspired and fatally-advised enough to buy it, would be the one and only model I'd possess.

I think I'll spend the huge amounts I've just saved on some more passenger cars for my Royal Hudson train, now coming along a treat, thanks to those fine gentlemen over at Accucraft UK's HQ in rural Herefordshire. I seem to recall that the real thing had a sixteen car consist, and I know from personal experience that my loco will easily manage that, having once hauled no less than twenty-one of them.

tac

PS - Note, though, that right now, NOBODY has one - the release date is October of this year, by which time it may well have increased in cost, although not in value. I would be very interested to know who has actually made it, as Aster have now gone into collaboration with Accucraft PRC, and AFAIK, Magnus is the only LGB collaborationist still around [if at all?].

tac
 
AustrianNG said:
As for the price comparison of £ vs $ it's all about the middle men - presumably Hobbycraft are still the "Mr 10%" middle men in the UK.

If I bought one it would be direct from Germany (see below) where you can buy it for 3,465 euros or £3,200 or thereabouts - so massive mark up by GRS. Tut tut.

https://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_fro...C0.H0.Xlgb+26605.TRS0&_nkw=lgb+26605&_sacat=0
Click to expand...
Mr 10%? Mr 18% from my research documented in a previous thread. Pure profiteering.
 
So, will this actually clear snow?
Will anyone use something that costs £4300 to clear snow if it does work?
 
It's interesting to look at the different pricing even between UK dealers (who are all buying from HobbyCo, because they have to) - in the new Garden Rail which arrived this morning, the Saxon VIk is priced at £1896 at GRS, but only £1750 at KGR....
Mine, direct from Germany, cost about £1430.... and I've since seen them even slightly cheaper than that on eBay.de.....

Jon.
 
Zerogee said:
Mike D's going to have to be a very, very, VERY Good Boy to get bought one of those...... :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Jon.
Click to expand...
Read Tac's first post again, most of the UK allocation are sold, so take a guess :mask:
 
Zerogee said:
It's interesting to look at the different pricing even between UK dealers (who are all buying from HobbyCo, because they have to) - in the new Garden Rail which arrived this morning, the Saxon VIk is priced at £1896 at GRS, but only £1750 at KGR....
Mine, direct from Germany, cost about £1430.... and I've since seen them even slightly cheaper than that on eBay.de.....

Jon.
Click to expand...
£1236 at toy-tec (€1392), that's £660 cheaper than GRS price.

toy-tec don't do the snow-blower but LGB are sold out anyway.
 
Sold out at the factory but the dealers will have them.
I have read (must dig out where) that it will NOT clear snow as a safety feature - the metal rotor would be dangerous if it span fast enough!
 
stockers said:
Sold out at the factory but the dealers will have them.
I have read (must dig out where) that it will NOT clear snow as a safety feature - the metal rotor would be dangerous if it span fast enough!
Click to expand...

So.....
Who will buy one, and then butcher it to make it clear snow, then?
:shake::shake::shake:
 
This is only my opinion, and may be taken in any way that you care to read it. But when we buy a model locomotive, we expect certain things of it, right? We expect it to move in a locomotive-y fashion, and if it has certain features that make it what it is, like a full digital sound system et al, we expect that to work. If it has a smoke system, then it should smoke and if it has lights, then they should light up. If it's a freight loco, then it should haul long freight trains convincingly - if a passenger loco, then sweep along the tracks ahead of a fine long set of coaches.

It would appear, though, that this 'looks' like a self-propelled snow plough, but is, in fact, nothing more than a VERY expensive desk-top fan.

LGB really should have touted it like this -

'And now, for the RhB fan who has everything, LGB, in association with an anonymous second party, have produced a LIMITED EDITION RhB Executive desk-top fan!'

This all-metal masterpiece, with its fast-rotating all-metal fan and multiple wiggly bits, both exposed and partly concealed, will thrill the fan of Switzerland's most famous metre guage railway. It toots, whistles, chuffs and parps - just like the real thing in every way, although, of course, it is a delicate and professionally-crafted masterpiece with numerous fragile parts, some of which might inadvertently become damaged if it were to be used, like the real thing, to actually clear snow. [This warning of fair use and implementation constitutes a mandatory notice of manufacturing limitations under EU Statute Law EOL[De]244590--10045, Part 505, Sub-section D20-26679 and DIN-90056-667].'

As for the comment from above, a quote from somewhere or other that may or may not be LGB-related, advising the lucky owner that sticking their pinkies into a metal blade rotating at n-thousand rpm seems a mite insulting to me. Has anybody here looked ANY kind of fan, let alone a lethal-looking item that is plainly made of metal, and wondered if it would hurt if I did thi------------------------------------------------------?

IOW, this model, and let me remind you that it costs almost THIRTY-THOUSAND-POUNDS in dog money, is a rail-siding or desk-top queen, and nothing more.

My interest, slight to begin with, has now diminished to that of less than nothing.

tac
 
If I could get one - which I can not, I would price it at £3769.

Shipment dates (as indicated by the UK distributor) are around the end of November 2018.
 
From looking at the video, and the picture of the parts,: I very much doubt that the model will throw snow. If it does, the snow will have to be rather fine, and ultra dry. Snow like that is seldom seen when you want it. I expect, if anyone can only afford to acquire the instruction manual for that "Rotary", it will advise that actually trying to throw snow is NOT advised. In North America; machines with rotary blades resembling the ones on the LGB model are called a "Rotary", and are not self propelled.
The "Rotary model produced by USTrains will not throw snow worth a durn...be advised. I have one here, which I don't own, and it sure as heck can't...as a model it sure needs a proper tender, also a water car, and a whole lot of work to make it look at all like a D&RGW NG rotary...even if it has a bloody sound unit in it...total waste of money, as far as I'm concerned.
I don't know that it is available any more...
Fr.Fred
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom