davidbeatles

I think what we have here is a very fine A3...on unboxing , 'wow' what a cracker! After hours of just admiring the loco on its bit of wood, you start to see things, wee niggly things, the absolute crap plastic coal load, akin to what I think would be nice in a crate of oranges, painting it would confirm the fact, its an awful thing!! I only had to touch one of the shields and it came off, same for the cylinder drain cocks, one broke! The chimney shows signs of being twisted off the plastic sprue to which it was moulded! My personal and worst gripe is that awful flimsy thing called a reversing rod, paper thin plastic and onto it the speedo drive has been fixed!?.... I didn't even have to run it to confirm what I thought would happen? It runs totally wonky with the reversing rod bending every which way, very unrealistic and like a cheap toy product!!...not what we'd expect in an expensive scale model!! Lastly, front steps, and air pipes (as per RM loco, we get the latter fitted to the tender) Hatton's say its a 'production thing', then why couldn't these be supplied as 'Extras' to be fitted by owner??? Still a fine loco Dave