bigwordsmith

Another vote for the Krokodil

And a fine sight it all is to - blue loco with crim/cream stock!

Surprised to see a parcels van 3 from the end - was the tail portion slipped somewhere?

Ian I think your suggestion is a good one, however i found that the latest version of iOS is putting in all sorts of odd corrections when I send text messages on my phone - it randomly comes up with all sorts of garbage and keeps adding NBC to my texts I find that care with typing tends to be the best solution!

Thought Lion was a BRCW loo and Falcon came from Brush - I had forgotten about the Maybach engine, but if BRCW got the winning powertrain, why didn't they get the Class 4 order?

So if we're going to follow Gilbert's advice, which I've always found very valuable, of 'Striking and innovative, rather than successful,' then it has to be Kestrel Falcon fails because it was successful in its eventual guise, as were DP1 and DP2. Lion could be a contender, but it was too similar in looks to Falcon, and anyway my Heljan model of it kept falling off the points and had to go back. Totally daft I know, but apart from Lion, for the above reason, I actually have models of all the others as well as 10201, which again fails the 'successful' test as it went on to form the basis of the 'Peaks' or was it the Class 40?

Prototypes - hmm should we specify that as 'Prototypes that never turned into production machines?" otherwise DP1 and Falcon are the obvious winners as they went on to become production machines. Could we even exclude them as really they were more 'pre-production' models than prototypes?

Another vote for the HST I'm afraid

When I set out to build my Waverley East layout in our last house I had visions of 10 coach trains hacking round a decent run - I did after all have 36' x 11 and Gilbert very wisely as it turned out counselled me to wards keeping it simple, especially if I was planning to turn it on my own. As you'll see if you can be bothered to trawl through the 20-odd pages of drivel in my own thread, this actually got to the building of the main lines and fiddle yard, and the setting out of the main station. I realised that operation was going to be way beyond me, and in fact with my eyesight getting slightly less sharp I found I couldn't really see much of the long train in the distance - The length of my room meant that a train at the other end of the room is a scale half a mile away, so all detail, even the number on the loco side, gets lost. We moved a couple of years ago so the railway had to be dismantled, and my new room is 21'x9'6. That is much more manageable, and while I will continue to have a very complex engine shed and a six road station to play with so I can terminate trains to send them off in the opposite direction, complete with loco change, I'm eschewing a fiddle yard in favour of semi-concealed storage loops so trains don't have to go round lots of times. The theory is that I should give myself a lot less of an operational headache. IN fairness I'm not massively enthused to get on with it at the moment, partly due to injury and partly due to having got a bit disillusioned at the last line by biting off too big a mouthful! There's a reason most layouts never get finished - ambitions are often much larger than the practicality. In that respect layouts like PN and Little Bytham are unusual, but they serve much more as a backdrop to the owners' main interests - in Gilbert's case realistic operations and Tony as we all know is an amazing builder of models.

That chap from the orange army in the first carriage is such a neat touch. Was it parade weekend in Glasgow?

That chap from the orange army in the first carriage is such a neat touch. Was it parade weekend in Glasgow?

Hi Dave the detail and lighting on these shots is what makes this whole model so outstanding - you really are hard pressed not to see the real thing

how can that be an honorary Deltic? It’s entirely the wrong shape!

Just so it’s not alone, can I change my vote to Kestrel as well? Hopelessly romantic I know, as it was a prototype that never succeeded, but what the heck?

Deltic for me as well

Talking of unusual Buffet vehicles ( which we weren't) I just received an emily from Hattons about some forthcoming Mk1 RBR Models MOre info at https://www.hattons.co.uk/newsdetail.aspx?id=670&utm_campaign=mar-0515-Hornby-oo-mk1-rbr-engineering-prototype-images&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Klaviyo&_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJwc21pdGhAaG90dG90cm90bWFya2V0aW5nLmNvLnVrIiwgImtsX2NvbXBhbnlfaWQiOiAiSkdRZVhoIn0%3D They look interesting...

GRid? Bone? Who they?

Hmmmmm why would you vote for that I wonder? I agree BTW

Western - 47s were like the school swot- good at everything and impossible to fault, whereas the Western has character !

Until you added more detail I was good to comment how the sleepers seem to not be at 90degrees to the rails - but then who would nitpick on RM Web?

Ive got a railway based in Scotland with a Western and A Warhsip in board!

A bit like most of us on here then!

Class 33 - BRCW Type 3 whatever - commuted behind them from EastGrinstead for a few years!

which one allows us to combine them?

SO should we combine classes 26 & 27 then as they were near as dammit the same loco?