Steve Purves

As the engineer behind the aforementioned 0-4-4t's in my previous life, I should think any Accurascale 0-4-2t (or 0-4-4t for that matter) should be more than capable!

Just a heads up, there's a new model shop opened in Melton Mowbray. Located in Bowley Court they have a unique combination of model railways and pet products! He's a stockist of Accurascale, Bachmann, Farish and Hornby plus other bits. No connection other than a customer! Also, if you're in the area I reccomended to visit "Micks Toys" on Windsor street for an eclectic selection of diecast and trains and there's also a new secondhand bookshop in the Mall with a wide variety of stuff and a good selection of railway books!

It's been a pleasure to be able to work on the 66. Wouldn't have been possible without support from the whole team, as it was my first Accurascale project it gave me an idea of the Accurascale way! It's paved the way for the next project, and the next and the next. I think there's some pretty epic stuff to come and I can't wait to show them off! Oh, and there's run 2 to reveal too soon enough! Steve

Like I said to you before... We will keep making it as long as you keep buying it!

I have double checked and round seems to be the norm. I'm sure it's shown as round on the Swindon drawing too Regards Steve

Might even go and give the EPs a Christmas run round the test track. There has been one plying it's trade on Making Tracks too if anybody has spotted it? Merry Christmas all!

Although 7714 is the only back feed loco, 5764 in the engine house at Highley has a boiler with both backfeed and topfeed bushes. Just those in the cab are blanked. I'm not 100% on the origin of this boiler mind.

Some of the boilers also had feed holes in both the backplate and on top, the LT one at Highley has this. You can clearly see where the backfeed clicks were as there is blanks fitted and a hole in the cladding. If you mean the overflow, which is the bottom pipe from the injector, then yes, there are 2 routes. As built they ran through the footplating and down to behind the cab step but later (BR) had the routing around the edge of the footplate and down to the cab step externally. Our model will have both options for both options!

Just a note of correction really, side feed wasn't a thing on a pannier. For loco's without topfeed, water was fed in to the backplate through clacks located next to the water gauges. notably earlier LMS tank locos tended to have feed to the side of the boiler, ahead of the tanks. As has been stated, it wasn't a trivial change but it did happen.

I'd say more than one of us! I was lucky enough to be involved in some of the S2000 and BTC era championships. The Super Touring years were just crazy but the BTC brought stuff back to ground. Steve, Mostly MG but with some Seat and Honda dabbles

5741 was a 1929 build pannier so would have been without top feed as that feature wasn't introduced for at least another decade. It did gain on in later life however.

I would have to check on the computer after the weekend but I think you are ok

Don't panic about the firebox glow. It was a "placeholder" LED, inserted to check the function ahead of configuring it!

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Absolutely! They have in fact already been changed since the files were published. It was spotted in the abyss between finalising launch media and the actual announcement being made. The same can be said for the roof handrail, this is purely an EP/drawing combination issue. We have the correct bits but not necessarily in the right order on the EP