Rapido's GMD-1 High Budget Sound Video - The Final Frontier

[Puddington]

On behalf of award winning director Jason B Demille, please enjoy the red carpet premier of the all new N scale GMD-1 video "GMD-1 - The Final Frontier"...... with ESU Loksound.... and remember to vote for this in the "Best Short Film or meaningless commercial" category when your Oscar ballet arrives.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOCS3gOz-U8

Our soon to arrive GMD-1..... what happens when a committee designs a locomotive in the Great White North eh..........

[jdcolombo]

OK.  Awesome video, and awesome model.

BUT . . . I'll disagree with only one minor point:
"You've never heard sound like this from N scale"

Yes, I have. 

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Seriously, though - great job on this.  This is the kind of envelope-pushing at the manufacturing level that I was hoping to inspire with my one-off sound conversions, and I'm tempted to buy one even though it would be slightly out of place on my 1957 NKP layout . . . Aw, heck, I will anyway.  After all, I went ahead and bought a bunch of FVM NS Heritage units with no sound at all . . .

John C.

[Puddington]

John; I can tell you that as we developed this we used your work as a bench mark... I hope we approached it.....

Thanks for all your help... we do appreciate it.

[jdcolombo]

I will say that the doppler horn effect is really effective, and I don't have that!

You've done great.  Be proud.  I hope it's a great seller for you.

John C.

[thomasjmdavis]

Nice job. Any thoughts on other locomotives you might stick that sound/speaker system into?

Also, is that a 10-5 carrying the markers?  Make sure those get delivered before Jason leaves for Star Fleet Academy.

Tom D

[Puddington]

Our follow up N scale locomotive, the FL9 will have a similar speaker although the enclosure will be custom designed for the locomotive. As for that 10-5 (and the cafe-bar-lounge) the US road cars are on the water and will be here in January; the Canadian roads soon after.

[tom mann]

I was hoping that a Chinese male bathroom attendant would give him a shoulder rub during the bathroom scene.

[eric220]

Star Trek references... "Mary Pickford as GMD-1"... So much delicious in one sitting. I may have to buy some Rapido stuff, even though I have no need for it, just to support the pure awesome.

[Puddington]

I was hoping that a Chinese male bathroom attendant would give him a shoulder rub during the bathroom scene.

Great Tom... give him ideas...... we're goin have words mate............