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My ROD example will be getting a Shedmate, they just need a shunting plank to run around on.

Ah well, more time to save, less chance of missing out. So I can't complain. (Also time to finish the layout... now how many times have you heard that old tune?)

In my own personal alternate history, the Brits win the American Revolutionary War, but fall into a revolution of their own, leaving the Royal family to set up shop in newly loyalist America. The Bourbons make less of a hash of the period and manage to figuratively and literally keep their heads through the reformation of the Kingdom of France, helps that a certain famous admiral of the period spots the crown George left behind and begins making designs on Portugal... and Normandy. Things get hairy for a while, but eventually the dust... and blood settles. You then have a royalist American, a republican Britain, and an constitutionalist France, lead by an, extremely relieved, Louis the sixteenth. The rest... is history I'm told.

I would think not, making one model of a famous preserved prototype that you still have access to is not a commitment to producing a class of locomotives. I've even been wondering about scratch building a Stirling single, its questionable if it would cost that much more.

I love how the 08 look embarrassed.

Honestly I think the Sturrock tender (sorry Graham) looks nicer than the original, it gives the engine a much sleeker and fast profile. The large one is a bit over powering. That said, I have stumped up for the original.

Oh... that'll explain it.

I'm a wee bit confused, didn't Rapido produce a small tender version in the original run? Or am I misremembering something? (Safe bet)

I’ve finally finished an Airfix 1/72 Tiger I. The new tool. One of the worst kits I’ve put to together, the quality was abysmal as you can see by the state of the sprues. Anyway it’s 98.5% done, a few pieces were still unusable, but I’ve already had Airfix send me out new side sponsons and a new gun mantlet. I’ve opted to simply finish it as the diorama I want it for is to be Star Wars themed, so I’ll just glue on some Lucas art gubins to make up for any gaps.

I’m honestly a little surprised in myself that I didn’t make the connection between the ‘powering Britain’ range and the 16 tonners. A fantastic announcement! These will be a license to print money for Accurascale, now to check the wallet trap. ScR.

LMR blue’s gotta be a slam dunk.

Whats the AU behind this one, I wonder.

Like liquid gold. I just hope he wasn’t making the cider out of beans.

Also very fetching. Mind you there was never a machine that looked bad in lined black.

I've also had a swize in the green book, was the firebox slope less obtuse on 2006 than on the others? 2002's seems to come down to the footplate at a far sharper angle in comparison. The idea that I'd had, was a 'What if', i.e if 2006 hadn't been rebuilt and made it into BR service as a P2, Lined Green would look lovely on a P2 after all. ScR

How well would I get on using 2003 ‘Lord President’ as a base for 2006 ‘Wolf Of Badenoch’? I can’t see any obvious differences between the two.

For me they’re about a 99.8% model. There are tiny flaws, the seam, the lack of guard irons and the nameplates. It’s nearly perfect and definitely a lot better than some of Hornby’s latest efforts, just let down by a few unnecessary oversights. Like the guard irons are just annoying because it requires me to order them in from Hornby. Still I was planning on just ordering etched nameplates separately so it’s doesn’t matter too much to me if they’re not perfect. ScR

Obviously your money, is your money, but for me personally the join isn’t noticeable unless you are with a few centimetres of viewing. Seems to be about the thickness of a human hair on my example. I can live with it as a compromise as it’s unlikely any other manufacturer is going to attempt a P2. ScR

That would make her a P2/1 then? Or perhaps a P2/4 if you include the valve gear modification on 2002 and 2003’s streamlining.

maybe the angle of the cylinders threw me

It did look like there was a bit of a ski-jump effect, the join though has much improved from the engineering samples to my eyes. Hopefully I'm overreacting.

I apologise, I should've expanded on this, does the running plate look like its warped to you?

Ahh, I did worry about this possibility.

Yes, it slipped my mind that 2007 is tracking closer to Cock o’ The North. Also 2007 appears to have a significantly different tender from 2002/3

Well despite the fact that you would be forgiven for forgetting that Hornby has an ongoing new Black 5 project, we finally have physical evidence of it. https://uk.Hornby.com/community/blog-and-news/engine-shed/view-p2 Sarcasm aside do actually look very good, though whether they’ll be good enough to warrant any fleet replacements is going to be a matter of personal preference and economy measures. I suspect we’ll need to see how they look painted up ScR