Bowaters Models - 16mm Rolling Stock Kits

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Re: Bowaters Models - 16mm Rolling Stock Kits

Post by angr607 » Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:29 pm

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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!
Bowaters Models:- http://www.bowatersmodels.co.uk

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Turning a Second hand 'Superior' into Bowaters 'Superior'

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Re: Bowaters Models - 16mm Rolling Stock Kits

Post by angr607 » Fri Oct 01, 2021 4:38 pm

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

To start with the motive power....

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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.

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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.....

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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.

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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
Bowaters Models:- http://www.bowatersmodels.co.uk

Current Projects:-
Rebuilding the Railway!
Turning a Second hand 'Superior' into Bowaters 'Superior'

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Re: Bowaters Models - 16mm Rolling Stock Kits

Post by angr607 » Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:17 pm

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.

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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!

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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!

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Bowaters Models:- http://www.bowatersmodels.co.uk

Current Projects:-
Rebuilding the Railway!
Turning a Second hand 'Superior' into Bowaters 'Superior'

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Re: Bowaters Models - 16mm Rolling Stock Kits

Post by artfull dodger » Sat Oct 16, 2021 7:49 pm

The kits look great, Are there any plans to do freight rolling stock for Sierra Leone narrow gauge to go with all the 2-6-2t Hunslets out there? Or are the SAR kits close enough to use as "stand in's" for cars used on the SLR? I am hopefully that the SLR coaches come into production next year that I have heard about. Cheers Mike
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