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Well somethings being delivered tomorrow.

Looks a bit like if WLLR Earl if it had lived off Weetabix and Protein shakes. Edit: And one back-click would've told me just that, ah well what I get for extreme laziness.

It would have to be Monday at the latest.

Wallet heaves sigh of relief.

Oh well, I’ll make it back, no more expenses for the month, it’s a Christmas present after a difficult year etc. I really just shouldn’t have money.

I predict a GWR Pollen, completely useless to me and far too big, I will of course take ten of them.

Not to nitpick Corbs, but it does look like the dome on the 4-4-0 is a little proud, otherwise lovely work.

Who can forget that classic of Welsh folk songs 'Oh the times, they are a slating', I heard some American did a cover of it.

What did my wallet ever do to you?

Mine is on the way, had to pick that out of all of my pre-order as it turned into an accidental bargain. Still the tender and cab are not great. But with a bit of brass, paint and patience, you could probably whip something ‘as good’ up. ScR

I'm going to be even poorer if that refund doesn't hurry up.

I do hope those aren’t scuff marks on 10000

Speaking of Box size, the A class box is huge, so I do wonder just how big the Deltic one is going to be. Like will I be able to get it through the door.

So thats why my wallet bit me this morning.

As someone who’s owned a Bachmann ‘Donald’ I can tell you that your worrying too much. A Thomas line 812 wold be instantly noticeable as far cruder. This models do for the moment seem to have flaws, flaws that may behoove some to wait out for an alternative. But dressed up Thomas machines they are not.

@Accurascale Fran Oh dearie me, just dropped this here, how clumsy of me... I hope nobody gets any ideas.

My personal preference is a bridge from Dover to Calais. Though I can’t see how a 19th century British Government could agree to it, perhaps a written promise from Wilhelm II to never declare war in his lifetime.

Ta for that Turbo. I once tried chopping a Lima J50 into a kitson, didn’t work.

@Corbs, would T.S be interested in taking a commission for another Kitson? Or is there any definite time it might become available on hardys hobbies? I just don't want to go bothering the man. ScR

I notice a similar thing with smokebox doors, an engine with a number plate, seems to have a completely different character to one without. This is especially true on late BR A3s. The engine looks like its frowning.

And apparently a coat of Zimmerit.

I dunno, from certain angles you can see why, to an audience in the 1950s, they would look positively space age.

A big, and I do mean big, green box was waiting for me when I got home. Accurascale really doesn’t mess around with packing, the model is centred in this really dense black foam with a sturdy plastic ice cube gripping it. Yet nothing feels too stiff or hard to get at, the model itself is in a word, solid. I mean that positively, there is a wonderful ‘firmness’ to all of accurascale’s products. I sometimes feel like I have to grip a Hornby product at the edges, lest I feel that awful sensation of a part bending under my fingers. The build quality on the A class is simply sublime. If you’re an Irish railway modeller then you really have gone from famine (metaphorically, it’s just a metaphor) to feast… ‘awkward cough’.

I’ve looked through the ‘mind the gap’ feature with the seven car example, and I think I can make out a couple of capacitors.

Well thats a deal breaker for me, for £400 I can't justify it.