This model has now completed its testing phase with well over 300hrs running (and still going!). Decorations and corrections are completed and we are waiting on the improved 2nd decorated samples.
As can be seen from the photos of the first samples [attached], the DRS livery is proving a challenge, we're not happy with the current result, and despite some advanced printing equipment being used there is room for improvement.
There are many improvements to the Chiltern version; the Scotrail and DRS liveries exhibit these incrementally, with detail such as underframe decal positioning and additions of bogie serial number plates etc. We still have black windscreen lining and additional tweaks which will be evident in the next samples, (an example of the feedback process can be seen in photo 4). The numbering on the cab doors seems 'stuck' as a Roman font, this is also one of the corrections noted.
We are of course frustrated by these issues as inevitably they create delays out of proportion to the size and length of time the correction actually takes to implement, (such is the continuous machine that is China, where every minute is scheduled). The good news is that we are using the time to progress with next years releases.
As can be seen from the photos of the first samples [attached], the DRS livery is proving a challenge, we're not happy with the current result, and despite some advanced printing equipment being used there is room for improvement.
There are many improvements to the Chiltern version; the Scotrail and DRS liveries exhibit these incrementally, with detail such as underframe decal positioning and additions of bogie serial number plates etc. We still have black windscreen lining and additional tweaks which will be evident in the next samples, (an example of the feedback process can be seen in photo 4). The numbering on the cab doors seems 'stuck' as a Roman font, this is also one of the corrections noted.
We are of course frustrated by these issues as inevitably they create delays out of proportion to the size and length of time the correction actually takes to implement, (such is the continuous machine that is China, where every minute is scheduled). The good news is that we are using the time to progress with next years releases.
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