I'm delighted to see another FR product being launched on the market and I've always had a soft spot for these very basic carriages, and their brake van variants.
I could be tempted by a model of Van 2 in its green livery myself.
Our only model is one kit-bashed from the Dundas kit in the distinctly orange colour it sported at the end of the 1980s, so by now it's rather outdated with a lot of our other stock.
I do feel a little bad for Dundas who will inevitably see a decline in sales of what is a very good, and easily put together kit which has served the hobby well.
Models like this feed the narrative of some critics who argue that ready to run is bad for the hobby.
I prefer to believe that the entry of the likes of PECO and Bachmann will have the effect of expanding the market for narrow gauge, bringing new modellers into the scale.
Hopefully those people will progress to expanding their rolling stock from kits, thus making up for any impact on a couple of product lines.
