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If ever there was a convincing argument for using scale three link couplings on your layout, the front end of this model is it! All that empty space and a rather clunky looking coupling filling it. Maybe it's just the angle in the photo but it's spoiling what looks to be a rather fine model.

I wonder will there be room for sound in the tender too? Probably not. Still the chance to fit a decoder without messing about with detail laden boilers is a good thing.

Roll on September; there'll be one coming to my layout.

David

 

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QUOTE Hope to be getting one of these models too. Perhaps we could collaborate on a review?
Sounds like a good idea to me.

David

 

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QUOTE Here is a photo of the latest factory painted sample.

That front coupler will not last long on my model. If there is a mounting to go too, so be it. There could be a good market for "unsnipped" models on the Collector circuit in a few years time

David