6892 Oakhill Grange

Crystalline materials scale well so if you want to adorn a 4mm lady with a flash engagement ring get some diamond dust. Non crystalline materials do not scale well. Water is the most obvious example, those pre CGI movies where the model ship explodes in the middle of totally inconvincing waves alway amuses me. So what conclusion can we draw from this. Real snow is ok but you need fake rain!

Long enough for the load a spam could lift between Plymouth and NA.

Are those two about to be taken off to be replaced by something useful, a 460 perhaps. Can't see that pair of weight distribution accidents waiting to happen making it.

Err Western

Watch out the Duke is watching

Stick with the Duette. It is dinosaur technology but seems to work fine with modern motors. DCC has moved on a lot since Zero1.

Is that GT3?

Aahhh Swindon at its best. High sided tender, that boiler shape and the frames poking out of the drop ends. Can only be a Hawksworth County. 'County of Hogwarts' judging by the awful colour.

Stop calling me Laura

And this time with the joke... ...isn't that the German trounced by Albion while La France had a quick glass of wine over lunch. Nice Geisl ejector though!

Reason 1: because it looks like a Hawksworth County Reason 2: refer to reason 1 Ad infinitum.

Doubt it Swindons use of Brunswick green was appeasement. Although removing the name of Knight of the Black Eagle may have required the flying helmet and the whisk to be used.

Where are Crownline when you need them? Take one Hornby Star, cut of entire front end of loco at smoke box ring. Replace smokebox, saddle, front running plate, cylinders, motion, bogie, loco wheels etc. What could be simpler?

I guess we can expect something RTR as soon as Lady of Legend hits the rails.

The cost of the patterns for the wheels and the boiler for one. Also why was a unique tender developed so that they had to build 30 tenders for 30 locos utter madness. And in that photo, there is definately something odd about the cylinders.

Rhuddlan Castle and Brecon Castle showing up Tregeena Castle and showing strangle northern people with Jeremy Kyle chimneys and unnecessarily heavy tenders what Swindon did best. Oakhill by Darlington and Aberdeen (Just in case I set of a bout of shandy drinking comments)

I have a Percy (2011 vintage) fitted with a Lokpilot 4. I presume that the chassis is the modern one that posters are describing. On DC driven by a 35 year old duette it would manage a minimum of 18 mph. On DCC it would go slower but the cogging of the motor caused massive vibrations and the stock bashing into the loco. The self tune on the Lokpilot was interesting, it. needed only 7 ft of track but I had visions of the loco flying across the room. This made no difference to the performance. With stay alive fitted it was stall proof. Based on my experiences I would say improved performance with DCC is case not proven for this type of chassis. Oakhill

A David Geen open C if anyone can remember that many posts back - everytime I blink there are another 20 pages on ANTB

Sorry correction can't ruin a Hawksworth County any more than Airfix did!

Can't ruin a Hawksworth County any more than Hawksworth already did. In the earlier Manor discussion Krugers versus Counties is my ugly from Swindon walk of shame.

No I agree but it is close run against the streamliners! Of course if we open the field to all GWR 460s then the Manor is pin-up material.

RCTS Volume 9: 4405 / 08 by 1932 Others by 1937 except 4400/03/09 Suggestion that 4400/03 were never fitted. No date given for 4409. Russell Vol 2 has photos of 4409 in Great Western green with a fender and no shutters or steam pipes. So pre WW2 seems reasonable for that as well. 4406 in the same source has steam pipes, shutters and a fender. As a further variation 4404 is shown with shutters, no fender and no pipes. I reckon that in the 1930s you could line up all 11 and have no two identical. Then again as I have said elsewhere recently they all look the same to me. Oakhill