Lewi73050

But there are other variations that haven't been clarified yet.

Will MR Black 2290 include the headlamp? Or the originally high tender sides?

Interesting to see MR Black has now been added as a livery option. But MR crimson remains. Is there any record of Bertha being in crimson at any time?

7 hours ago, DCB said:

 

Do you know if there are any pictures of the cranked axle.   I am fascinated by the notion of achieving clearance that way

There's this one which shows both the cranked axles whilst bertha is under construction

1 minute ago, Compound2632 said:

 

I'm not sure how changing from one fictional livery to another can be seen as correcting an error. 

I thought it was in MR red for a short duration at the start of its life?

Seems the error between LMS and MR Crimson has been rectified

@benbrownJust browsing online and found some images with the smokebox door cover removed (as the real W1 had on some runs, especially towards the end of its water tube life)

Is the smokebox door removable then?

4 minutes ago, Locoman58 said:

When doing technical research for our sound projects we had a graduate mechanical engineer (vehicle technology) on our team.
Based on technical documents he found out that there were probably 3 variants (the last two only for a short time):
1. Single chimney and a gear apparatus above the LH cylinder, 
2. Single chimney and gear apparatus removed, but an additional bar above the LH gear instead
3. Same as 2. but with a double blastpipe.

Saluti

Alessandro

There was also this variant... be interesting if Hornby added this option.

Seems to be a bit of a lottery atm whether the model you buy will A. Turn up or B. Turn up undamaged. Hope this isn't the case for these models.

Off topic question and not sure if it's been asked before. But does anyone know how many beats per revolution the W1 did? Read some different claims it was 4 beats or 8 like a Lord Nelson.

Anyone else still waiting for their GT3 first run?

I pre ordered a DCC sound fitted model (well, paid the first installment) as early as March 2019 and haven't seen or heard of any delivery update.