bill_schmidt1

Wasn't this the first exclusive loco for RMWeb? Or is that best forgotten about?

Fair enough. Be interested to know when the rivets started being added and I wonder if it was a batch thing as there are pictures of new ones (at least fairly new) with the rivets.

Having taken the time to put the tiny lettering on the axle boxes I would have thought putting the row of rivets either side of the axle box on the W iron would have been simple enough to do..

Sorry, I don't buy that one at all. Whether you criticise KR or Hornby or Bachman it doesn't matter if they are a one-man-band or 1000-band-man. What matters is whether the criticism is warranted or not and how it is dealt with.

Thing is, and it been said a lot, No one really knows who has done,doing what first. What can be said is its always Hornby that get accused of gazumping!

Thing is Hornby haven't done a new tooled loco/stock announcement at Warley for some time and do all that around Christmas, so why this announcement is such a let down to you and a few others who seem to want to bash/mock/etc Hornby all the time is rather funny. Its the same old thing. Hornby announce this, "moan moan moan.. duplication.. bad Hornby.. Blah blah blah". Another manufacturer makes a duplication announcement and everyones happy. It's pathetic. If you don't like Hornby then just don't buy Hornby.

Seems that way doesn't it. Probably dog and gran by the way Rapido are going after Cambrian SECR kits.

Sort out the wonky numbers on the D class next then?

Thats the problem though. This forum is full of manufacturers threads with people clamouring for the latest products. They then seem happy to let errors go but then start up the next round of "we need a new tooled/ upgraded X Y or Z" when it could of just been right the first time. In this case its a silly error that should be right and as you point out people could fix it but why should they? If this was a Hornby model we'd be at 100+ pages of people saying it should of been right and Hornby should know better.

Oh I dunno. Would be nice on a nearly £200 loco if the numbers were straight. As you say, we keep getting ever more superb models so it would be nice if they got the simple things right. Seems more and more thought that people want ever better/upgraded models and are also happy for them to carry mistakes.

On all the ones pictured in the last couple of pages. The cabside numbers all appear to be drooping to the left on each side. Can't just be the angle/camera lens that everyone has taken picture.

As Nice as they look, they all seem to have wonky numbers...

Having built a couple of the Cambrian kits recently it only took me a few minutes to look through a few books to see that in later SR and then BR days that some picked up 3-hole disc wheels.

Not all of them had split-spoked wheels so you might want to check that..

Sentinel shunting at Tarring Neville.