Some of you may have already looked at my topic comparing photos of the Roco and LS Models SBB EC Coaches.
https://www.marklin-user...co-vs-LSM-SBB-EC-CoachesOn this lockdown Sunday, I was trying to figure out what to do next...
and this brought me to the great (exact scale) Eurofima comparison:
I have the Roco (44655/54236D), LSM 47300, ACME 52400 and the Piko 58531.
To start, there were two versions of the Roco model. The first, 54236D came out in 1985. It was one of the first Roco Exact Scale Models. A few years later, it was renumbered as 44655 when Roco changed it's numbering. The second model then came out with a white stripe, instead of the original grey one. LS Models, ACME and Piko are all more recent models of the same type of coach.
The first of the new models was the ACME 52400. The LSM coach followed a few years later and this year, Piko introduced a new model in Exact scale.
LSM has released three or four individual models with different coach numbers. Additional versions of the LSM coach have appeared in sets by LS Models, ModelsWorld (a LSM subsidiary) and PiRATA (LSM's Italian partner).
All models are 303mm long, which is 26.4m in exact 1/87.
Here is a review of the Piko model from Modellbahn-Schweiz:
https://modellbahn-schwe...a-1-klasse-sbb-von-piko/LSM 47300



ACME 52400



Piko 58531



Roco 54236D/44655



Roco 44655 - 54236D

ACME

LSM

Piko

Roco


There is a difference in the quarter panel adjacent to the doors. The angle of the part is different on some of the models.
The earliest ACME models had more of a vertical slant, as they seem to have mistakenly borrowed the shape from the later FS coaches.
They also had little metal inserts for the running step adjacent to the doors, which have a habit of falling out and getting lost.
The Roco and ACME coaches have a reproduction of the little light that was originally on the roof above the right side door.
The Piko model is the lightest of all of the models. It also has the darkest tinting of the windows, which results in a washroom window that is too dark.
The LSM coach has an incorrect line cut into the molding of the coach ends. I did not get a photo of this.
I know that the couplings were different (Swiss Express vs normal) but I would have loved to see this consist in regular operation. It looks nice.

Regards
MC
Edited by user 25 January 2021 07:06:12(UTC)
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