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Scratch building often comes with its own nightmares even for skilled modellers. I recall the old DJH Duke of Gloucester kit being sold with the shorter Britannia firebox! Hornby is "getting there" but slowly!

All double Dutch to me! So much has changed since I restarted this hobby after a gap of 50 years!!!

Hmmm - more surgery then!

Has this new model had the close connection problems (as with SWS) to the tender dealt with? Thanks!

Interesting to see City of Birmingham without the height reductions enforced on the other two surviving locomotives for main line running. Apparent around the cab.

One of Sir Sydney Camm's best!

My hopes are that Hornby will eventually issue a "decent" P2 - not "design clever" with the Bugatti front. Otherwise I'll have to kit build. Fingers crossed!

A request to Hornby - please correct the locomotive/tender drawbar system on the reissued SWS which due to "fouling" on other parts under the tender cannot be used for close coupling without surgery to this drawbar.

The US "premium HO brass models" come from Overland Models. The best are claimed to come from the 1980's onward. Superb but very pricey.

It will be interesting to see if the existing "Design Clever" P2 is re-issued when the new Prince of Wales is completed! See https://www.p2steam.com/

I seem to recall some early photos of SWS with electric cabelling along the right hand side of the boiler. But my memories are not good here. Anybody know more?

Hoping they improve the draw bar arrangement to facilitate close coupling without having to perform surgery!!!

Can anybody give a link announcing the re-run of SWS please? As the price I'm seeing is considerably more, is this re-run the same as the original R3555?

The numbers of 6229 and 6220 were reversed to normal when 6229 returned to the UK. Re TSR 2, the section at Brooklands is made of "boiler plate" and used to test cockpit systems etc.

I'm returned to the hobby after many many years and so am not familiar where I can get some jobs done (I'm disabled). I'm looking to find somebody who could make a new draw bar for the engine/tender for my SWS - where I feel more close coupling might be required. My model only goes round shallow scale bends! Many thanks, Edmund

The re-streamlining of Hamilton has catered for latest gauge requirements - lower overall height I believe by a couple of inches or so due to new track ballasting levels..

A friend of mine was a senior designer of the TSR 2. He and his colleagues saw the red light on its cancellation a year before this happened when the Tories were still in power! Incidentally rumours persist of another airframe which escaped scrapping (XR 221) and was secreted away from Preston (Warton) Back to locos now!

Gresley P2 with Bugatti front end!!

Merlin XX as redesigned by Sir Stanley Hooker at Rolls Royce prior to the BoB

A bit at a tangent but are there plans within Hornby to reissue the DoG, the P2 (Prince of Wales) and the "new" Clan "Hengist" when these projects are complete? Hopefully the DoG model would comply with the revised tender type in the rebuild.

Trix Twin produced their Flying Scotsman originally in blue livery. Later changed to BR green in circa 1953.See http://www.trix-twin.co.uk/hist3.htm

How rare are the Hornby Duke of Gloucester models in the 1960's configuration? Was the locomotive model modified to show the decreased "pipework" below the cab in those days? Many thanks!

There are a few models connected to Hornby Dublo where some prototypes might exist. I know a "master" was made of the Duchess of Atholl in 1938 with a single chimney. Were any others made before WW2 when Hornby went into munitions? Also at the latter end of Hornby Dublo, a Gresley V2 was planned. Were any made? Are there any more rarities around I wonder? Thanks

Many thanks for this information. I haven't opened my model yet but will be careful not to lose the fall plate when I do. Something completely different but reminded by the Duchess of Atholl model also just released. I recall that in circa 1939 Hornby Dublo announced their model of this Duchess but it was not released until after WW2. The illustration put out possessed the original single chimney. Hornby did produce a single prototype locomotive with this which might have been used for these pre-war publicity shots. I wonder whatever happened to this very rare model. Any thoughts please? Thanks