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  1. AlfaZagato
    These look fine models. I must be one to bring up their price, though. Especially direct from Bachmann here in the US. Each of those vans runs $50 or so, on average. Cheaper to grab them via a UK hobby shop. Are you planning on fussing with them at all?
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    It'd be a shame if they cited 'lack of evidence.'
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    I've been using my DSLR on automatic settings as it is. I've forgotten much about setting a proper camera since I last used my 35mm regularly.
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    I can see that, too. Maybe a 'shortcut' to a reasonable Alice in 00? I'd probably start with a Bachman James for convenience. Though I know a local gentleman with the Hornby.
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    This looks decidedly continental. Still pretty glorious.
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    There may have been some desire for the additional sure-footedness associated with 'all-driver' locos that led to the 2251 remaining an 0-6-0. That, and a question of weather the weight of the extra axle and associated frame takes the proposed loco into a worse availability.
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    I also haven't had one. I'm also American, so a cheap Warbonnet F-unit was my first new trainset loco. It may convince other buyers. I honestly wouldn't have picked up on the black lining being 'wrong.' I also still don't see it being worse than GT3 in BR Blue
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    I'll defend companies doing 'fake' liveries on one-off locos. Ben Aldo had a good column a year or two ago about such liveries in Model Rail. They sell. And with corpos cinching the purses ever tighter, understandable to find ways to stretch an investment. I mean, there was only one GWR 101, and I think everyone has had a model of one, and not many in the correct livery.
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    That may apply to pre-war England as well. I've read, anecdotally, that the LBSC line was very convoluted due to avoiding existing property lines.
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    Should have gone pure hydraulic. Germanophobia be damned.
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    I think going to Brill trucks is an odd half-step to avoid it being a regular bogie coach. At that point, you have the same or similar equipment already made. I could see the four-wheel version being about six feet shorter in length, though.
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    I'd wager all the Big 4 had their own brickworks. Railways always have a need for brick, and the Big 4 were probably wise to keep things as self-contained as possible. If GWR didn't directly own the brickworks, I'd imagine they'd pull for 'own-brand' from whomever they contracted with.
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    If it wasn't a tool van, I'd say color as well!
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    I think that's a big stopping point for a lack of B-P locos, too. Not many lasted until the 'marketable' eras. RTR seems intent on painting everything black with a ferret.
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    That explains British Leyland
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    I mean, those braziers were probably wrought iron? Even if they were forged, they'd be liable to bend if you brushed it wrong.
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    Example A as to why I haven't shot my latest two since purchase. Also, the one needs an extractor.
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    This has me very excited. A huge step up from wooden wheels!
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    Considering the US officially adopted metric in 1976 or so, working on American cars from that timeframe is fun. My '85 Chevy truck had three different sizes on the bleeders, two metric and one SAE. In re the shed, looking very good.
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    Yeah, a 3D-print or resin shell would probably trigger something. Shouldn't be too hard to make something that's 'right' enough to be 'wrong' for anything. Or make a DX shell. Pregrouping is getting ever more popular.
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    Are you building this for yourself? If you are, I seem to remember you run EM. Would you have space at OO?
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    Can I hazard we go back to discussing the model at hand? There's enough issue taken with Bellerophon so far without keening on KR as a whole. I imagine there's a thread for that already. I'd also not want to see the thread locked, as happened with DJ Models.
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    Looks like it will move quite a bit of stock, what with that massive motor.
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    At least there's the option of changing it now. This isn't the APT.
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    I don't think it's so much a problem of clearance for moving parts on the loco. I think it's more an issue with lineside obstacles.
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