Design Project 2022/1 has commenced and will be forwarded to our vendor Qtr 2 2022.

Pending Arrivals

D3 ESU Sound decoders are on their way to Australia and are due at Seven Hills around 5th January.

 81 class, some SRA livery models are on their way and are due mid January. The remainder will be shipped as they are completed during the course of early 2022.

  End Platform cars are ready to ship and awaiting consolidation at the end of the month with some other products. They’ll be available from late January 2022.

  LHG Brake van and BPL/BCPL carriages are almost ready to ship and will be available from late January 2022.

  Some SO/SOC wagons will be shipped mid January and the remainder completed in late February, some will be available from late February 2022.

Engineering Samples  

 Painted and lettered LHO/LHY Brake van and KP Mail sorting van samples are in transit and we’ll post some images early January.

 Painted 900 class diesel samples unfortunately won’t make the holiday cut, we’ll see these early March. All chassis assemblies will be ready though so we can proceed to assembly very quickly.

F, Y and 1620 class samples will be available late January.

2022 Deliveries

 VR D3 limited stock of some 1960s Tour Train engines with dedicated headboards. Two new versions of D3 639, in 1970s red and polished steam dome and D3 639 Steamrail post ’88 with headboard. These will arrive late February ’22.

  In addition to the above release, we have re-ordered D3 639 black with red lining and D3 639 Canadian red Austeam ’88, these will arrive mid 2022. We underestimated the popularity of these two versions in 2020 when we placed our initial order with our supplier.

  VR K class. The final redevelopment work is complete and the supplier is about to commence the new tooling and improvements to the old. We’ll have pre-production engineering samples mid Qtr 2 ’22 and intend to deliver these models late 2022.

We also intend on releasing some period appropriate rollingstock to suit both our D3 and K class next year.

Thank you to all our customers in 2021, your support and patience is greatly appreciated by our small team.

Our Office will be closed from today until Monday 17th January 2022.

 All DCC pre-orders have been allocated. Demand for the more colourful versions of 639 have exceeded our expectations and consequently are Sold Out. We have approached the supplier to ask if a small quantity of these running numbers can be slotted into their production early next year, but only if this doesn’t impact the K class production.

 For mid 2022 we’ll have S trucks with buffers and spoked wheels back in stock along with mixed packs of the venerable Austrains NEO 4 wheeled louvered vans and 4 wheeled livestock wagons. Inline with our NEO upgrades we’ll expand our range to encompass both the original timber solebar versions and the newer steel solebar design.

 We are also considering our options in offering some 12.0mm versions of our ICX series container wagon and O series open wagons to match their use in Tasmania.

These have arrived in Sydney and we should see them at our warehouse this coming week. We've elected to ship all the models to Sydney including the earlier series D3 with flare top tender, available through SDS Models site. The DC models will be shipped immediately and we'd like to offer our DCC Sound customers some delivery options.

Read here for the latest DCC update of our Victorian railways D3 project.  Click here for PDF 

Our 2022 program for this model is now online. Assessment of this model has been completed and our supplier has commenced the changes we wish to incorporate. These will make the D3 and K class compatible in motor design, electronic control and lighting functions. Production ready samples are due before Chinese New Year holidays in January 2022. Production should commence Qtr 2 2022, with delivery later that year.
The Phoenix Reproductions K class models reflect their later years of Government service and a range of preserved K class. 

The SDS Models early K class reflect the engines 'in service' during the 1930s and 40s.

The first engineering samples of the vans arrived recently and we are very pleased with them. We expect the first decorated samples (and we've extremely keen to see their version of varnished finish after the appearance they achieved with our End Platform cars recently) before the Chinese New Year break.

VR PL carriages project is nearing completion and ideally we'll see them in November.

The NSWR KP mail van is presently awaiting the first tooled samples and expect these later this year. Scheduled for delivery in Early 2022.

The NSWR LHO/LHY brake van is presently awaiting the first tooled samples and expect these later this year. Scheduled for delivery in Early 2022.