m davies

Craig, very interested to see your beta etch masters, I'm considering some work of my own, so seeing others work is very interesting. You etches look very crisp nad neat, good work.

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Michael

Good point, I was trying to think earlier of other locos with buffer shrouds and only came up with the class 41 HST, totally forgot about the Deltics !, so your reasoning is sound on the buffer shrouds.

Regarding Dominos, heres some info that might help

55 022 seen with standard Dominos Apr 74

55 018 had Dominos in Feb 74, though much smaller dots than became the norm later.

9009 in BR blue seen with standard Dominos Sept 73

55 008 seen with standard Dominos Jan 74

55 001 seen with standard Dominos Feb 74

Official records (Directive DL/381) state that 9009 was the first to be done late 1972 locally at Finsbury Park, but only No 1 end, the film was outside the glass, No 2 end was done at Doncaster in Feb 73 with the film inside the glass, this was fully approved by Oct 73. By July 74 it was approved for the whole class, but as can be seen above, several members were done before official approval. All this info and more in the excellent Irwell Press "The book of the Deltics".

Hope that helps

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Michael

Its certainly an eye catcher, I'm wondering if the buffer shrouds would be yellow or black like the rest of the undeframe, maybe even BR blue ?, that would contrast the red buffer beam a bit better I think.

Thats the beauty with flights of fancy, your never going to be wrong .

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Michael

it'd probably have been classed 56, generally classes go on engine HP, Falcon is 2800HP so sits between the Westerns (52) at 2700HP and Deltics (55) at 3300HP. Kestrel was 4000HP so it'd have to go above Deltics somewhere, if it survived until more modern classes arrived then it'd probably be classed up in the high 60s somewhere.

Nice paint job on the model though.

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Michael