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I have just reassembled a Hattons 7mm A4 which I bought used from them The driving wheels had all come off and lots of parts were damaged or missing - Hattons were very help full in replacing these After a few minutes of running in one of the driving wheels came off again which had been re attached using very strong araldite The axles just push into a blind hole which is clearly not adequate Every wheel manufacturer I know of uses a screw The Hattons website has a lot of these A4's and the A3 also in various states of wheel loss If You have been tempted to buy one of these beware The only answer to this that I can see is to replace the driving wheels at a cost of £75 on top of the £52 already spent

The Hachette Mallard is a good basis for an A4 but works out very expensive. I have used the body/nose/skirts and the frames - doubled up to produce a strong chassis. If you want to run your model avoid the hachette wheels which are very poor. The biggest saving can be made by buying an A4 corridor kit. I eventually got one from William Ascough, Ace Products, but it took 4 months and I ended up having to launch a case in the county court against him to get it.