Great British Locomotives Magazine

[mick b]

Re worked Tender inc Floor raised, sitting loose on a Hornby Chassis. Tender front not touched as it will await a Livery decision.

[mick b]

[Kestrel]

Just an aside from talking about the abundance we have of A4s, feast your eyes on this. How do you fancy modelling it?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... alate.html

[strang steel]

He is just the chap we need to locate the BR Strategic Reserve

[Saint Johnstoun]

Here's the first body fitted up to the chassis. The painting and tender will be dealt with later. I await buffers, whistles etc. to complete.

The view above shows how the body is attached to a Hornby 5 pole chassis.

[Saint Johnstoun]

Tender - I presume one has to bring the tender floor insert up around 1.5mm to get it to fit correctly?

[Atlantic 3279]

[quote="Saint Johnstoun"]The view above shows how the body is attached to a Hornby 5 pole chassis.

Beautifully simple, and of course the lack of Hornby's moulded insert with cosmetic frame "eyebrows" over the leading bogie wheels hardly matters unless the sacrilege of valance removal is committed.

[2002EarlMarischal]

Bought issue 2 from Asda this morning. Packaging on reverse again refers to a V2 in the pipeline.

Quality of Coronation seems slightly better than Mallard. Very interested to see what they make of 4472.

Also be interesting to hear whether Blink Bonny, with his LMS Forum hat on, see opportunities for this.

(Justified this one as we streamlined D o H at Tyseley).

Asda stated that ongoing sales will influence decision to continue. I am considering ordering it on a regular basis and then selling ones I don't want. Not that one person will impact the decision much!

[Saint Johnstoun]

I picked up a D of H in Asda today although my newsagent is likely to send one up too tomorrow. I see a streamlined version of the proposed 4-6-4 coming out when I put my west coast hat on!

My two 'green' A4s now have chassis fitted and I am gradually getting the production line sorted out so that a monster airbrush session will be on for next week. The V2 proposal also now has a chassis - what I am going to do here is two tender variants, an unaltered 4200 gallon, and one built up like the B17 streamliners.

I await Scotsman to see what the tender is like as this could be a source of corridor tenders.

[Saint Johnstoun]

V2 Proposal

- body now trial fitted to the chassis.

[Dave]

I love the V2, that's on the cards for one of my bodies now.
Keep up the good work.

[2002EarlMarischal]

Great stuff gentlemen! Thanks for sharing the valuable information, ideas and images.

[Blink Bonny]

Also be interesting to hear whether Blink Bonny, with his LMS Forum hat on, see opportunities for this.

As for 6220? Oh, dear! Shape looks great, livery application is better than the Streak.....

..... but.......

in red livery, the engine is ONLY correct for the 1939 US tour, when it was 6229 masquerading as "Coronation." No headlamp is fitted which was carried in the UK before it went. Gauge lamps were fitted in the US, these being out of gauge for UK lines.

A near miss. Not that I'd have bought it anyway. I have LMS Streamliners in both blue and red. And the blue 'un has a scale length set of matching coaches to go behind it....

[James Harrison]

Also be interesting to hear whether Blink Bonny, with his LMS Forum hat on, see opportunities for this.

As for 6220? Oh, dear! Shape looks great, livery application is better than the Streak.....

..... but.......

in red livery, the engine is ONLY correct for the 1939 US tour, when it was 6229 masquerading as "Coronation." No headlamp is fitted which was carried in the UK before it went. Gauge lamps were fitted in the US, these being out of gauge for UK lines.

A near miss. Not that I'd have bought it anyway. I have LMS Streamliners in both blue and red. And the blue 'un has a scale length set of matching coaches to go behind it....

I did think actually when I saw it that a red Coronation only existed for the 1939-42 US tour. Perhaps they could have done a blue Duchess of Hamilton to go with it too- I've not seen one of those around?

I'm waiting with baited breath for the mooted Butler Henderson- £8.99 strikes me as a bargain even only for the tender.

[Sea Eagle]

"Flying Scotsman" could be an inexpensive source of small cutout cabs for anybody looking to convert "Book Law" to late 30s / postwar condition...and of course the bucket seats will also be needed for such a conversion, as well as for correcting ""Flying Foxes" and "Gladiateurs".

Having just destroyed a "Flying Fox" body to get the cab off, I'm now wondering whether I should have waited...