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Thank you all for the lovely messages regard to the Hachette transfers for the lner green a3s thay fit just fine and when dry just paint with satin varnish humbrol is ok enamel or acrylic problem solved just got to find front steps and jobs a good one

Just a heads up if any of you are getting an a4 from hattons spoke to them at nec 2day guess what when i sked where the vertical hand rail wos on the a4 the answer wos it wos over looked and its to late to put right not what you would expect for a major project come on hattons you can do better than this its a school boy mistake put it right wail you canand sort the paint job on mallard please for 750 don't wanna be messing around drilling and paying out for hand rail wire and hand rail knobs not every one can do this getting it right even if delayed a few more months would save negative comments

Spock to Hattons 2day at NEC sadly the a4s won't have vertical hand rails talk about detail how can thay have missed that when asked if they will sort this all I got was to late and that's it lets see what there expert makes of that

May be of interest to all of you who have lner a3 Hachette transfers can be found on eBay and are great for front bogie wheels

The marks on the deflector version are tooling marks they are on 3 that I've seen only slight on my own tooling does not line up properly and with all the things that are not correct so much for experts Hatton should have asked me no expert but a nerd on a3s how with all the photos and 60103 in preservation can they get it so wrong

Interesting to see how many of you are haveing the same problems with your a3s I have looked at several of them and it is a tooling issue that leaves the marks on the smoke box and sum verry poor quality control issue's sum loocos even suffer from I'll fitting parts think Hatton and Heljan should take a good long look at what customers have to say would be great to hear from Hatton to see what they have to say and any one noticed the a4 is missing the vertical hand rail

On mallard should be blue just beyond rain strip as preserved not black just to make that clear

Looking at the painted models just wondered where are the vertical cab hand rails and worthy of note the rain strip and just beyond should be blue not black

A bit of useful info the warter scoop won't need to be a problem as is present preserved state as it was removed in its major overhaul hope this helps sum of you

This model is very good if you want it as present day preservation but it would have been a nice touch if thay had included front steps and air breaks and brass cab side works plates I'll b upgrading mine and will post sum pick of how to improve this wonderfull loco

This model is very good if you want it as present day preservation but it would have been a nice touch if thay had included front steps and air breaks and brass cab side works plates I'll b upgrading mine and will post sum pick of how to improve this wonderfull loco

Just got my hattons a3 br flying scotsman as preserved any one else noticed that the rain strip is black and should be green and no front air brake pipes front steps could have been added for customer to fit if they wanted will add photos of mine when I've upgraded it