Finally taken a few photos of my 47145...
First of all apologies if they're not the best quality and also apologies that they're a little late...i'm a little rushed at the moment with other things. Hopefully my shots capture the feel of the model well and I've tried to focus on the many details of it. Given time I shall probably take some more (better) shots once I've carried out detailing on the model.
As I said before, this is a very good model on the whole... but somethings which I have just noticed that people may want to pay attention too...
- My model has some glue on the engine room door. This is nowhere near anything that I would have expected to be glued down so I can't really understand how it got there. Unfortunately I feel this is quite derogatory to the model as it is quite obvious close up and if I try to remove it I think I may end up damaging the model, hence I shall probably try to get it exchanged in the near future. Given that Nick L also describes glue on the roof grilles, maybe this could be a common problem.
- Also some of the joins in the paint aren't very well executed...on my example most are ok, but the join between the cab end yellow and the bodyside blue is very poorly done. I wouldn't descibe the join as fuzzy (I could just about accept this) it is more wavy in appearance and not what I would really expect in a model.
I must stress though that I am being very picky here.. and usually I wouldn't mind some of these issues but A) its a limited edition model and I'm reluctant to carry out any work I don't have to. B)47145 is an important loco to me so I want my model to look as realistic as possible.
Enough of the ranting...now for the pictures.