Hi friends,

Tonight the Pioneer Models crowdfunding campaign for a brass RTR low-frame 32 Class went live on OzCrowd. 

See all the photos, details, variations and liveries here: https://ozcrowd.com/campaigns/brass-o-scale-143-nsw-32-class-locomotive/#.Vfqugs5u4gU

Or, if the link doesn’t work, Google the OzCrowd site and search it for Pioneer Models.

The price is $2495, and we need 80 sign-ups to make it happen. The specifications of the model are:

• Accurately detailed 1:43.5 scale hand-made brass model with 2mm chassis frames.
• Fully painted, and lined where appropriate, numbered and ready to run.
• Four prototypical liveries in a choice of ten numbers, chosen from historical research and photographs.
• Both front footplate styles will be available: original ‘S’ curved, and later angled version.
• Wheels to Gauge O Guild finescale profile.
• Mabuchi 12V DC motor; gearbox ratio will be 1:22 to 1:25.
• Working leadlight (LED) and front and rear marker lights – white forward, red reverse.
• DCC ready – this spec is still under development. We are hoping to provide a current ‘best practice’ facility to wire in a 21-pin decoder with sound connections. No designed-in provision for a speaker for DCC sound, but sound can be fitted using after-market suppliers.
• Wheel material – to be decided. If the axle needs to be insulated, the wheels will be stainless steel die-cast whole. If the wheels need to be insulated, the wheel core will be brass casting with rim to be stainless steel.
• Opening smokebox and firebox doors.
• Couplers: prototypical hook and single link coupler fitted to front buffer beam. Provision made for Kadee (and compatible) knuckle coupler draft gear box, to Aus7 Modellers Group height specs, on rear buffer beam.
• ALTERNATIVELY, a prototypical tender buffer beam with hook drawgear can be fitted, but it must be ordered at the same time as your loco. Email us at pioneermodels@optusnet.com.au if you want the prototypical tender buffer beam on your model.
• 1 Year factory warranty on parts and assembly.

The campaign is live for 87 days, and closes on December 13th 2015. So there’s plenty of time to consider it, save up, ask for a raise at work or dip into the childrens’ inheritance to get yourself one.

Please read the info on OzCrowd before asking any questions. Then, if you think there's anything that that information doesn't cover, you can contact us via our email address: pioneer models@optusnet.com.au, 

or via the OzCrowd site.

Cheers,

Lindsay O’Reilly, for Trevor Hodges and John Birch,

Partners,

Pioneer Models.