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"Big End" <a_corby@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> Lambing Flat <bullack@cia.com.au> wrote in message
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> > G'day all :-)
> >
> > The latest Eureka Models update is now available.
> >
> > For the benefit of non-Australian readers, Eureka Models produces high
> > quality models of New South Wales Railways prototypes in HO.
>
> Does it really? Thats very questionable as they are yet to put a model
> on the shelf. Nor do they produce them, they are in fact produced in
> China, under contract to Eureka Models to my understanding. I
> seriously doubt Ron's back shed is large enough to go into production
> of HO scale models.
> >
> > The big (though hardly secret ;-) news, of course, is that Eureka's 3rd
> > release will be the NSWGR C38 class pacific, in both streamlined and
> > non-streamlined form, in black or green, "pristine" or weathered and
> > with optional Sound.  Details of the new model are available on the new
> > 38 page.
>
> And heres a prediction. Following the 38 will be the 59 or the 32. I
> base this on the following series of events:
>
> I bought a couple of Lloyds 60 class kits and what happens, Eureka
> annouce they are going to open with a ready to run 60 class.
>
> Just before Christmas 2004 I received 2 x 38 class kits from Lloyds
> and now Eureka are going to do a RTR 38 class.
>
> Now having just received my Lloyds 59 and 32 I reckon I'm odds on on
> the law of averages that Eureka's next model will either a 59 or 32
> class
>

In that case, please buy another 32, a couple of 35s and a few 12s!!

Darren
http://www.byroncreek.com

> Lucky I'm not a comspiracy theorist, otherwise I may think someone was
> bugging my phone.
> >
> > The latest Eureka Times is finally up, as are all the "lost" back
issues.
> >
> > The 620 has slipped a bit (as expected) and is now due in July, though
> > the Garratt appears to be still on track for October delivery.
> >
> >
> > James McInerney
> > Eureka webmaster: http://eureka.m.bigpondhosting.com/
> >
> > My G gauge garden homage to the now long gone railways of Tasmania's
> > west coast, the "Rurr Valley Railway"
> > http://www.cia.com.au/bullack/rvrtitle.html
> >
> > also http://www.cia.com.au/bullack/ , where the steam era NSWGR
> > secondary lines live on in HO at bucolic "Lambing Flat"
> >
> > and http://members.optusnet.com.au/lambingflat/ for the family stuff!