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Afternoon mate, Many thanks will pop an email across now. Appreciate the real thing got them very late on! Would the loco need any detail tweaks to suit the time period in which the plaques were carried or should it be fine as is? Many thanks for your very quick response!

Afternoon all, Just a quick couple of queries for the nice folks at Cavalex and apologies if already answered further back in the thread. I’ve come to detailing my coal sector 56023 and was wondering if a set of BR arrows and Toton depot plaques should have been included with the model, or is this only the case with 56074? If so, are there any spare sets available for 074 that you could send me? (Would obviously be more than happy to pay for these if so). And finally are there any details on the loco as modelled that wouldn’t be correct if modelled with the arrows/plaques? Loco end details added and despite the locations being awkward (as per the real thing) was a doddle to fit, the rotating Screwlink drawbar was a very nice touch! Thanks in advance, Luke.

Got to see 56098 absolutely belting it out of Derby before work on the DCR hire-in and within an hour this beauty is sitting on my desk: Safe to say yesterday was a good day… Echoing what so many others have said so far, genuinely a stunning model and probably my favourite OO scale loco to date. If this is what Cavalex can achieve for their debut loco model I think the future is very very bright indeed!

Thanks 97406, didn't know about the Heljan spares but I've just had a look on Gaugemaster's website and they're showing as available to pre-order. As I'm planning on pairing the 87 with a Heljan 86 them both having matching BW pans is a bonus!

Morning all, I’m currently looking to update 87035 to late 1980s condition to represent the very last 87s in BR blue, with that in mind does anyone know if any companies produce RCH TDM pads + stowage pockets? Also the second (and probably near impossible) bit is sourcing a BW HS pan, I know at one point Accurascale were talking about maybe releasing the 92 pan as a spare if enough people showed interest, did anything come of that? As a worst case I’ve got a Heljan 86404 to reminder and a spare SF pan to swap onto it but would rather not if I can help it! Any help or advice would be much appreciated!