Received my first two Sentinels (GWR & LNER 150) yesterday. The detail below the footplate is quite awesome. Not only are the sandbox delivery pipes there, but also the support angles that hold them in the correct position. The brake rigging is also as per prototype, although you have to turn it upside down to appreciate this. There are a few compromises above the footplate, notably the roof details and the wooden covering over the water tank. The latter is a preservation addition to ISEBROOK. In service most of them ran with coal heaped over the water tank, so easy to disguise this point. As others have commented the slow running is excellent.
Thanks to Model Rail for a superb RTR Sentinel! Given the success that this model is bound to be perhaps MR could consider a RTR Sentinel railcar? The LNER shaft driven car would probably be the easiest to tool and could be finished in CLC colours as well. The earlier chain driven articulated version for the LNER/LMS and Channel Islands had variations in the layout of the passenger section and, to a lesser extent, to the power unit bodywork and would need a good deal of compromise to cover all versions.
SENTINEL MAN