Graham Farish VBA Vans
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airfix27RA
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Graham Farish VBA Vans
I have recently been on the Graham Farish website and could not find any VBA vans at all. Have they stopped producing them?
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Re: Graham Farish VBA Vans
The listing on their site will be a combination of what is in stock at Barwell and those items scheduled to have a production run. If it is anything like the OO list, there will be a heap of not yet available, some with proposed dates and many 'TBA'.
It is no secret that Bachmann have struggled for production capacity these last four years or so, following the forced closure of a factory, requiring a new factory to be opened and brought up to speed. There have been a lot of announced new product introductions that have failed to turn up on time, or are still awaited; and reruns from much existing tooling have been patchy.
But some retailers may still have stock of what you want, from whatever previous production there has been. (It is the retailers that determine what gets reruns BTW. They are presented with an order list of proposed products from existing tooling, and only what the retailer base orders in sufficient quantity to be economic gets a production slot; the well known 'pull' system.)
It is no secret that Bachmann have struggled for production capacity these last four years or so, following the forced closure of a factory, requiring a new factory to be opened and brought up to speed. There have been a lot of announced new product introductions that have failed to turn up on time, or are still awaited; and reruns from much existing tooling have been patchy.
But some retailers may still have stock of what you want, from whatever previous production there has been. (It is the retailers that determine what gets reruns BTW. They are presented with an order list of proposed products from existing tooling, and only what the retailer base orders in sufficient quantity to be economic gets a production slot; the well known 'pull' system.)
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airfix27RA
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Re: Graham Farish VBA Vans
Thanks Bigmet, nice info, so order of the day, wait and see.
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Old Hippies never die, we just float away.
Have a cup of tea, reference to Gong
Old Hippies never die, we just float away.
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Re: Graham Farish VBA Vans
I'd suggest not just wait and see, but scout around retailers to see if they have stock of past production still on the shelves. The larger 'box shifters' may not have much because they stock it and sell out, but 'Tiny Models' in Adverse Camber, Barsetshire - well you never know...
(I found a heap of good stuff in a model shop tucked away on the market square in Holsworthy, North Devon, about three years ago. A village the size of Holsworthy has a model shop...)
(I found a heap of good stuff in a model shop tucked away on the market square in Holsworthy, North Devon, about three years ago. A village the size of Holsworthy has a model shop...)