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QUOTE (Brian Considine @ 5 May 2008, 11:27) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Got to agree with everyone about those couplers - they are truely awful !
Thing is, do the manufactures leave the couplings off for the publicity shot or not ? IMHO it would be better to leave them off with maybe a smaller "balloon" pic just showing the front end so modellers can see.
Otherwise it looks a fine model & I look forward to Richard doing a "back to back" with the Brassmasters ones.
The decoder socket in the tender is long overdue & a great improvement.
Although prefering things "Southern" it is a nice change to see a model from "north of Watford".
That coupler does look unsightly to say the least- it's moments like that when I ask myself why I'm still using the damn things....
That's looking promising though- oddly enough, amongst all of the attention-grabbing diesel releases lined up for the next year or so the new model I'm most looking forward to is the G2- that front tension lock is definitely coming off mine as soon as it's out of the box though....
Thing is, do the manufactures leave the couplings off for the publicity shot or not ? IMHO it would be better to leave them off with maybe a smaller "balloon" pic just showing the front end so modellers can see.
Otherwise it looks a fine model & I look forward to Richard doing a "back to back" with the Brassmasters ones.
The decoder socket in the tender is long overdue & a great improvement.
Although prefering things "Southern" it is a nice change to see a model from "north of Watford".
That coupler does look unsightly to say the least- it's moments like that when I ask myself why I'm still using the damn things....
That's looking promising though- oddly enough, amongst all of the attention-grabbing diesel releases lined up for the next year or so the new model I'm most looking forward to is the G2- that front tension lock is definitely coming off mine as soon as it's out of the box though....
