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Looks brilliant. So when are you announcing a Black 5?

That looks fantastic. Now Accurascale, can you please hurry up and announce a Black 5

Now if Hornby would give the Princess a metal foot plate I'd be happy. The 3 I own have all got the ski jump front end.

Sad this is happening as it's a great range. Hopefully someone steps in and buys up the business and we can have it run more professionally than it is now.

Any updates on your own projects Iain?

Bahamas has a short firebox. So it can be made from one of the current Bachmann models. A double chimney would be needed if you couldn't get your hands on one of the Hornby Magazine models of 5596. Here's comparison photos i quickly found on google comparing Bahamas and Leander. Zooming in on both will show Bahamas, with the short firebox, has 5 washout plugs on the drivers side while Leander, with the long firebox, has 6 on the same side. Also the short firebox finishes at the start of the middle splasher while the long one finishes in the centre of it.

F****** stunning.

I'm sorry to say Rob but that "weathering" job isn't worth £20 mate. Looks like that crappy factory weathering Hornby used to put on models in the early to mid 2000s.

What's your plan for that mate? I tried all the things you did to reduce the ski jump on one of my two princesses and i couldn't get it any lower, unless i missed something? The body, when off the chassis, just has the unnatural ski jump. I can't see a way of changing it.

Disagree regarding the Princess part. They have their own issues as well, Ski jump front end for one.

Looks great Iain. Have you had a look at Hornby's new Princess yet?

Keeping my eyes on this one mate

Hornby are hopless when it comes to straight running plates, you'd think with how bad the A3 has been for years, they'd be making all of these big locos with metal running plates.... which ironically the A3 will now be getting. I have multiple Royal Scots and and new Princesses (LMS man here) with wonky running plates or the ski jump front ends. Then there are others with the same models without this problem at all. Very annoying.

Agree with Tony and the other comments regarding the current state of HMRS Pressfix transfers. I model LMS post war, so the choice of brands is limited. I've used old PC transfers (the original HMRS transfers) for post war lined black LMS locos and they stuck fine and were clearer, more defined and who's colours were more accurate than a brand new set of them from HMRS which did exactly as Tony described earlier in regards to the length of time for back paper to come off. Also the colours and printing seem to be mkre washed out and less sharp than the older PC and older HMRS transfers. These newer ones (for me from the last few years or so) are s***, no other way to put it really. The lining is exactly the same... I'll give Fox a go, i do use their LMS smokebox number (individual) transfers and they are quite easy to use, though I've never used their lining, what is it like?

Hats off to the Accurascale team, I'm sure this will be a winner. Fingers crossed, at least for this LMS modeller, you guys have considered a Black 5...

Depends on what they are for. Brassmasters do really good LMS ones, Hornby make great ones you can get as spares.

And that's fine, except for the fact that they haven't done an accurate model of either this or an A4 post war as Mick said in Garter Blue without valances. Liveries that were actually applied in general service for more than a few weeks or never in some cases as on the W1 (Apple Green)

Here's hoping they do 6205 with modified value gear.

Well it did have two for a while...

Yeah exactly, saw some more photos online that show the model definitely has a coal pusher tender, at least i won't have to repaint a BR blue one in to 6206 in Lake. Thanks for the easy job Hornby.

I just saw a photo of 6212 on Facebook and it appears to have a coal pusher in the tender. Is this right? Because the real thing definitely didn't...

Let's agree to disagree then John.

It's not cream It's yellow. Why would every single source material state its yellow and not cream then? Why would the overwhelmingly majority of people who have seen it, during BR, say it's yellow, when according to you and only you it's cream? It's a BR version of the standard LMS Crimson Lake lining and livery which is darker than the old midland straw coloured yellow. Middle chrome yellow is what the rcts book calls it. Now what the LMS called straw is a different thing again. What they referred to as straw is not the same as the yellow that Crewe used for the lining on for the Maroon (really it was Crimson Lake) Pacifics they repainted from the late 50s. Straw is the edge lining that was used on the 1946 lined black locomotives, it being a pale more like a cream colour. Great photographic examples are in "Stanier Pacifics" by Derek Huntriss, you can't look at those photos and tell us it's cream. Same as the cover of the RCTS book on the Stanier Pacifics, showing 46256 in the livery. Clear as day that's yellow lining around the bufferbeam and on the front running plate. I agree regarding some models looking off with i guess, for want of a better term, straight or raw yellow. Yellow does not scale well with lining, hence why model painters use more of a creamer mix of yellow for lining. But that doesn't stop the real thing being yellow, just the realities of certain colours scaling.

The cab stripe is obviously much newer than the 46225's livery, which explains why it looks different and there's also more than one shade of yellow... Every single book on anything to do with the Duchesses and Princesses state it's yellow. Photos back it up as yellow. Crewe's paint shop said it's yellow. Someone like Larry Goddard, who knows more than anyone about liveries on locomotives knows it's yellow. You're the first person that's said it's not. Didn't you say something about researching before critiquing?

The LMS pacifics had yellow and black lining, not cream.