Bluebell Model Railway

I am probably one who is a critic of KR, but I will stand by what I say and what I find... We pay KR to produce a model that is accurate that is correct, with models being close to and over £200 I would expect that model to be correct... so Dave down the pub who doesn't care won't notice but he will think it's a damn good model... or Steve the rivet counter modeller who will pick it up and maybe find fault with small things and probably the track gauge but will convert it to P4 anyway so why bring it up... The fact is its good they are doing these rarer locomotives but I find myself wondering what are we paying them for.... is it to spec.... is it correct... is it what we expected... I have a Leader on order and I know there's a fair few areas that are not right... did they do their research... or just send one drawing to China and say make this please. He's had people try to help in the past from the Fell to the Leader.... description issues on Bellerophon all working motion... which wasn't true or possible... so why say it... The GT3 is probably one of their better attempts but that is the one Keith wanted himself... minus some detail on the tender as @Wolf27 has mention and a few others in passing at shows. If your going to make something... do it properly. Maybe it wasn't wise that Keith named the company after himself as he seems to take feedback personally.

Hello, New terrier diameter wheels: 15.9mm old tooling Dapol/Hornby: 15.91mm New Dapol terrier: 15.85mm

I received a preserved example of the steam railmotor from Kernow, I decided if there were any left I may pick one up and after they dealt with the mass of orders to send out from the past 10 years, I went and ordered and arrived pretty quickly, overall its a very nice model, lots of detail, runs well, lighting a little bright, some light bleed from the main internal lights, I only run DC so I'll just have to adjust my dimmer... I mean speed controller 😅 https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBhpZD And a small review: Cheers

Hello, I've been lurking for a little while, mainly watching people pinch photo's off my website and post them here without even asking... lovely... Anyway I have decided to post one of a few models I have built, or modified or designed and 3D printed.. This one is a few years old, and was a design which has been hidden at the NRM in York. This a Bulleid, austerity pacific, dubbed the Q1 Pacific in one magazine which I managed to buy a few years ago (Steam world 1982), shows the wooden model as displayed at the NRM. Some debate on when or what it was for, was it an early Merchant navy or a light pacific... The model has recently been upgraded, and new details added which I occasionally sell.. as its a bit more straight forwards. So here's a few photos: Thanks

Well 1 and 2 almost built and a third half built lol sounds like my workbench after I brought one lol

It's just a painted sample of an old body shell, so its about 6/7 months old now, as it's still not attached to the chassis, which was still a problem back then which was being resolved... unfortunately not the other 25 things which are not right but hey ho... For @ikcdab If you are going to make a model make it properly... because unfortunately those who are in the know will know.. and as a modeller and a person who knows about it... and lets forget the track being 3.5mm and the body being 4mm, as that will never change... and its been accepted... plus people can re-gauge if they want to.. but if you don't do your research is it worth the price being paid. As modellers we always want more in terms of detail and correctness from spokes, to correct wheels, rivets being flush or not, missing end of the day if you don't do your research it will always be a comprise to what you give the factory to make. Plus we all model differently, most accurate wagons, carriages, locos but budgie grit for ballast and Peco code 100. And yes ok we get a model of Leader... great. But for me, and I will speak for myself the errors especially blatant ones annoy me, as its not about cost... just down to research which is available if they look.

As they are 3D printed, they will never be robust... so means you have to keep replacing them more money for them... unfortunately as they are a resin/abs/plastic type material, they will only cope with so much... they will all fail eventually.. this is why I never brought in to the hype of them... now the manufacturers have picked up on them finally, I would say their market focus has shifted to line side details...

Same I was after some a year ago still am... All I was told is these things don't happen over night... a year later they haven't reappeared as they were an Elieen's special... some bits are now with Cambrian on eBay.

They are extremely small mind, there's other photos from the book where they don't show up at all, they may be just about visible on that photo, but scale it down to 4mm, they probably won't be that visible, from the prototype or pre pro, they were rather large.

To keep the cab metal attached to the metal frame however on the front these should be flush riveted unfortunately and shouldn't really be visible.

I have just cleaned up the photo of the black one I can see rivet detail on the front still unfortunately.

A few photos from KRs newsletters looks like it's lost its warts on the front...

Just not very foot passenger friendly that route which is why I never go that way. If there's fog which I see its a possible on the weekend Red Funnel won't run. So only way for me is Ryde-PH and unfortunately no trains so doesn't really work, unfortunately ferries are the death of the island, was supposed to be taking my business to an exhibition but again fog cancelled that so yep I'll be moving this year.

If you were an islander you know its not just down to weather lol As it would be Sunday for me no trains so its a no go.

Sadly won't be attending as trains are not running and due to bad weather I imagine the ferry probably won't be either.. Unfortunately wasn't aware of this exhibition till this afternoon.