Paul_sterling

Ahh thanks. It was that someone said they were all scrapped that misled me. Those two Victors are big beasts to be fair, and would make excellent models in RTR, no disrespect done to the already excellent conversion kits available. I'd even go so far as to say, to rising costs *of everything); smaller locos, smaller layouts, and the generally lesser costs associated with them are a good antidote. Thanks Paul.

How about those two big Bagnalls (for the steelworks in Wales?), can't recall which works numbers at the moment, but they were right chunky beasts! Bigger than Vulcan and Victor I believe.

I didn't see any.

EWS livery has always had something about it, for me. It looked great on the older locos (better than it does on the 66s which i felt always suited the freightliner livery more), and the rows of withdrawn locos carrying the livery makes it the iconic 'Barry of my lifetime'. Paul.

I've often wondered why it got a single blastpipe. Was questions being asked about the benefits of the double? (again!) Paul.

If you go for a worm-free drivetrain, coasting over dead spots would become a lot easier, and would only require retaining of how to control it to get it to stop in the right spot ( just as Thomas' driver and fireman learned to be extra careful.......) Paul.

From this pic (and one on RmWeb "60s industrial steam" page 3), I believe that the lambton victory used the same cab methodology as no.29, I.e the cab profile was a radius about the boiler centreline. Thanks. Paul.

Thanks, I've seen that pic before. It's a great article though David does note he used an Austerity as the profile example.

Okay, so from my drawings, no.5 is 155" tall to chimney top, and 140.5" to cab roof top. 29 is 154" to chimney top, and 142" to the top of its cab. The cab is 51.75" radius about the boiler centreline. Victory is 153.75" to top of chimney. According to LLT, victory no. 41 was 12'10 tall, which is 51.33mm in 4mm scale, vs PI victory at 51.25mm, so if it was shortened, it probably werent on the chimney. Dome might have had a chop down mind. It was tall shouldered. 41 was a camera shy sod in comparison to 5 and 29 and the austerities, so difficult to say for sure.

Egg shaped tunnel I believe. 29, 5, and any others I've pictured, still had (relatively) tall chimneys. Would you like me to check the drawings I've got for chimney height vs the cab height and cab curvature?

Yes a little, from the pics of the original I've seen, both were slightly shorter, but still the tallest feature(s) of the loco.

See you Saturday!

It's also very much the style of the time, with most shunters looking very similar. I noted a repeated comment on a certain popular loco reviewers YouTube video about the loco being basic in detail. The thing the person repeatedly failed to get their head around is that the Victory is a very austere loco, there may not be comparable levels of fiddly bits that he wants to see, because the original didn't have them. Were over the moon with ours, and the bairns even expressed an interest in building a shunting puzzle yard just to play with this loco alone.

What a fabulous locomotive, ours arrived today, its smooth, well finished, captures the look of Victory perfectly. We'll done guys, looking forward to future editions from you guys, as well as a lambton cab haha. Thanks. Paul.

Eagerly anticipating mine, think the wife might have even ordered one for me for birthday too. Paul.

James, can I ask what courier the locos are getting sent out by please? Curious as much as anything. Thanks. Paul.

HO too.......

To be fair to any manufacturer, as one supplier of wheels notes, the real things wear down, so it's not unreasonable for a wheel to be under its as designed size, thus its not unreasonable for a model wheel to be slightly undersize too. And, As I always say 16.5mm??? 4mm scale? Nothing is perfect in this hobby!

Moreover Tom, yes I've found my love of Engineering has meant a career in it has been straightforward, and has helped me into a lot of jobs. One company however, (that I was already working for and being interviewed for a job that I was covering), the General Site Manager (long-winded excuse for MD) tried to turn it against me with the following; "You've got a lot of hobbies in Engineering Paul. Do you not think you shouldn't?" 'Eh?!' I thought. "Not really Lee, I'm passionate about Engineering and my time is precious. My Son loves the same hobbies as I do, so I can combine my time with him with Hobby time" He wasn't amused. "Well, when I started in Engineering, I had a young family, I put all that to one side to focus on my career and chartership" I won't quote the rest but it centered around I should drop the family, drop the hobby, and get on with getting chartered. I don't personally think getting chartered straight out of Uni is a good idea, you have no experience, and no competency, I've done an apprenticeship, a degree, and now have several years experience. NOW i'm in a position where I can faithfully be a chartered Engineer. Suffice is to say, I wouldn't advise anyone to work for that company! as much as anything the site was a deathtrap! Paul.

Just me but I would have preferred the hi viz yellow to wrap around the front corners even if just to the first set of grilles. Otherwise I have always liked the Load Haul livery, it was a big change from what came before, and probably 40-45 years since the last time Diesels had been painted black in any significant numbers. Paul.

Markits are a also decent shout (Alan Gibson stock them, as well as a number of other outlets, Peters Spares, Roxy etc). I've used them on all of my printed loco shells, but have recently moved over to printing the shanks on the shell, and using the 'mechanical' aspects of the Markits buffers. No issue with the Markits buffers, they look great, more that I want the benefit of additional material on the bufferbeams to stabilise for printing. As mentioned Alan Gibson also does the buffers, although they 'appear' like the buffer heads are undersize. Probably not though. Paul.

Should The flanged base of the splashers not be bolt heads to fasten it down? Oxford have gone a bit crackers with how many there is, they should be more spread out.

I found that even my year 2000 40th anniversary evening star locked up randomly, sold it eventually and bought the Bachmann version. The subject crops up now and again which made me think the tender drive 9f had a fundamental issue that was never resolved till it went loco drive. Paul.

In Bachmann's case for example the cl37, they certainly beat accurascale to market, but I don't think it (appeared) to appreciably dent the pre orders of acc, as so many commented 1 on price difference and 2, with the 55 having just arrived in shelves, they were confident that the acc cl37 would be an impressive loco in its own right. Paul.

I was staring at the sound option, thinking it a very good idea....... Then again, I won't be able to afford a lambton one when PI hopefully (inevitably) produce one! So one (silent) loco for now! Paul.