Accurascale KUA Update September 2020 - Check out the decorated Samples!

Contributed by: Chris Trerise

16 Sep 2020 00:00am

These colossal wagons have been the subject of great interest since Accurascale announced them at Warley 2019

These beasts have certainly generated significant interest among modellers, with pre-orders flooding in since launch!

Accurascale received their first engineering prototype during Chinese New Year, and spent a number of weeks assessing the sample for corrections and critique before planning to progress to the next stage of decorated samples after Chinese New Year ended and the factories re-opened. Unfortunately, COVID-19 had kicked in by then which lead to delays.

While this disrupted the delivery plans of late summer 2020, they had already made significant progress on the project. As you can see in these images, the decorated samples have now arrived and have been assessed by the design team ahead of manufacture. They are generally very happy with the decoration and look of the model, but there are still some areas ripe for improvement. 

Accurascale say "The walkway thread for instance, was added after we received the first sample and is too large, coarse and of the wrong pattern. The brake shoes on the bogies are also receiving attention as they are quite wrong and were not updated from EP1. The buffer heads will be darkened for production and they will also be corrected to stop them spinning around in their shanks. All these issues have been corrected by the factory and were minor issues overall". 

As you can see below, our friends at Hornby Magazine have taken a closer look at the KUAs and put them through their paces. Check out their exclusive first look video!



With the COVID19 impact and tooling corrections the KUAs are now due in December 2020, with production already underway. You can place your order now to avoid disappointment. These giants are bound to be a talking point on any layout or in any collection, make sure you don't miss out! Order here >>>

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