NOT even close, and definitely NO cigar! LOL! 😁 I LOVE my 400E's and my Blue Comet and State cars for what they are: USA Tinplate of USA prototypes. They are NOT, and never will be, Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits Orient Express tinplate models!
I’d like to see a Standard or O Gauge Rheingold... I could care less if it’s not close to prototypical: tinplate isn’t for rivet counters
Pre-War Steve posted:I’d like to see a Standard or O Gauge Rheingold... I could care less if it’s not close to prototypical: tinplate isn’t for rivet counters
A 0 gauge tinplate Rheingold (https://www.darstaed.com/products_DCH4.html) is just announced by Darstaed (https://www.darstaed.com/products_b006.html) for delivery in 2019 ; price to be announced.
Regards
Fred
sncf231e posted:Tinplate Art posted:That having been said, the 400E Limited Edition "Orient Express" with the Blue Comet car consist is a quite illogical and silly, and a little beyond my fantasy tolerance level! THANK YOU for reading my thread, and Feliz Navidad and Froliche Weinhnachten to all!
Tinplate Art
Merry Christmas to you and I agree completely with you; that Orient Express is a horror!
Regards
Fred
Tinplate Art posted:SORRY, gentlemen, under any consideration, still a s-t-r-e-t-c-h!
I must've missed the memo...
When did tinplate become a rivet counting branch of model railroading?
Isn't this the same forum where the "Black bonnet" (a set that has NO basis in reality...) 400E set was scarfed up?
Rusty
Rusty Traque posted:sncf231e posted:Tinplate Art posted:That having been said, the 400E Limited Edition "Orient Express" with the Blue Comet car consist is a quite illogical and silly, and a little beyond my fantasy tolerance level! THANK YOU for reading my thread, and Feliz Navidad and Froliche Weinhnachten to all!
Tinplate Art
Merry Christmas to you and I agree completely with you; that Orient Express is a horror!
Regards
Fred
Tinplate Art posted:SORRY, gentlemen, under any consideration, still a s-t-r-e-t-c-h!
I must've missed the memo...
When did tinplate become a rivet counting branch of model railroading?
Isn't this the same forum where the "Black bonnet" (a set that has NO basis in reality...) 400E set was scarfed up?
Rusty
Rusty, this is what is called in some circles a "tempest in a tea pot" thread. 
Bob
FRED: Now that Darstaed tinplate Rheingold set is the cat's meow! WOW!
Rusty: It is not a question of scale or so-called "rivet counting", but rather it being ENTIRELY the wrong train, and no paint scheme can compensate for that. Guess we will have to agree to disagree! ☺
As my collection has a Flying Scotsman that looks like this ....
Its pretty obvious I have no place in this thread nor will ever be a rivet counter ....
Now that being said I think for ANYONE releasing a "serious" model train and charging many $1,000's , Even I would expect it to be somewhat "Similar" to what it is purporting to be LOL!
I think here in Australia we would describe it as " Taking the p.i.s.s. "
But each to their own , its a fine looking combo in its own right , and probably would have been better served marketing it as "The End of the Line Special "
But regardless, if you love it you would buy it, if you dont, you wont 
Either way, as long as you are enjoying what you do , what's the harm ?
All good points! THANK YOU for participating on my thread! :-)
I had forgotten about this thread! :-)
