French Autorails - Projects for Sunset or MTH

Well, let's see:

  I. As far as the standard larger postwar machines:

    A.  MTH is planning on an X3800 Picasso

    B.  Lematec [ Lemaco ] has produced the X2400's in a variey of schemes

    C.  Protomodels have done the X2800's, again in a number of schemes.

 II.  For the others I think brass or other kits are [ were ] available;  for example, an artisan firm called Loco Set Loisir produced a bronze kit of the X5600 [ FNC ] and matching trailer circa 1992, with Faulhaber motors.

III.  I guess my big question would then be "Then what ?";  without "Standard" trailers what do you run with the larger machines ?  If MTH is smart [ this is a hypothetical, rhetorical statement.....]  they will make the Picasso in powered and unpowered versions, so one could at least run a pair of them, but even so, without trailers a lot of the "operational fun" is gone.

Best regards, SZ

And also there's the Bugatti Presidential from Fulgurex available at about 5600 USD list price: http://www.fulgurex.ch/modelle/0/xb1001/xb1001.html

 Last week I was in Mulhouse where the full-scale version is exhibited and it looks very nice (especially the colour scheme on the chairs   ). Also a lot of other autorails there in the railway museum.