The Blessing (& Curse) Of Bachmann N Scale Percy

I would honestly be shocked if Bachmann doesn't go all in with this and just sell Percy's chassis on amazon or something for like 50 to 60 bucks a pop, no need to make a plastic mold or even paint the model.

I started designing the Festiniog Railway George Englands in their as built condition years ago for a larger scale. I always knew they could be popular in OO9, but the prototypes were so small that no mechanism at the time was close to fitting. The moment Bachmann announced a Percy for N scale I thought there was a chance it would be suitable, I just had to wait. I bought one as soon as I was able to, and sure enough it worked. I went on to create nine different designs depicting the four locos between 1863 and 1891 along with two freelance versions which are all available from the Mountaineer Models shop on Shapeways.

Bachmann knows exactly what they're doing when they release these Thomas models with such excellent machinery.

As an n-scale fan, I hadn’t planned on buying any n-scale Thomas and Friends stuff when they announced that line…and then I saw Percy running on one of the giant modular layouts at the Edison, NJ Greenburgs train show and was like “Holy crap, that’s adorable.” Now I have Percy, Thomas, James, at least one example of each of the rolling stock (quite a few more than two of each troublesome truck) have already preordered Gordon and figure I’ll probably pick up Toby too when they release his model. Thomas, Percy and James all run smooth as silk for having such tiny internals, and I hope that if the Bachmann N-scale T+F line keeps selling well, they’ll continue to introduce more characters. I’d love to have all the engines #1-11 and maybe Diesel. Who knows if the line will ever get that far, but I can dream.

The die cast chassis, the turned brass bearings, the flywheel and the coreless motor make it honestly the most overly designed toy I’ve ever seen, but, as an OO9 modeler, I couldn’t be happier

Teeny tiny gobin on wheels: a blessing and a curse

i always liked percy and his wheels it looked unique when i first saw him

Seeing this just makes me wonder why Bachmann has yet to update their older OO scale models.

Watching this video also made me realize that the Bachmann N scale Percy isn’t the only engine that falls under this category. When people try to make an HO Lady, they all use the ertl Lady model.

I'm just getting into oo9 myself, and it legitimately pisses me off how many kits use N scale Percy because of how hard they are to find and how much it adds to the cost of the model. While the chassis is good, 75-100+ on top of a solid bodyshell make the barrier to entry so much higher as there's no Used market for oo9 Seriously, someone out there needs to pull a Kato and make ready to run chassis for these things

Love this video. As an N scale modeler myself, I have used the Bachmann Percy chassis to make my own model of CNJ #840. It really is the only good 0-4-0 chassis for N scale; the rest are either 40-year-old pieces of junk that barely run, or the TU-Koppel. Also, now that you mentioned the thing about the Percy shells going to waste, I'm kinda considering 3D-printing a chassis for mine to make it into a Day-Out-With-Thomas-style dummy loco

Bachmann has some good stuff. But some of the thomas stuff is just cursed. Great video

Ever since I had ended up with the Bachmann N Scale Thomas set I [unexpectedly] won in 2021 from a disclosed raffle, I have been trying to get my hands on a N Scale Percy for a better and cheaper price through Amazon for so long I eventually, after a whole year, bite my tongue on the expensive price I had to settle on purchasing at the Greenburg Train Show one of them was being sold at.

N scale percy Me: he really is a green caterpillar now he's so tiny awww

Awesome video trainboy

1:11 Is that a Baldwin WD Peggy or a Stanley model in the making ?🧐

"If you needed an 0-4-0 in N scale, you had to modify it from an 0-6-0" I'd actually say a Model Power USRA 4-4-0 would be easier than a Bachmann USRA 0-6-0, since then you're not messing with the drive system.

Now I just want to make an N-scale Percy into an 0-4-0 porter

The amount Bachmann N scale Percy’s that have been slaughtered is ungodly

We use n scale percy like how the show used märklin locomotives