a similar construction method was used on the 1998 super detail A3's, I believe the idea was to reduce the amount of tooling required to produce the different types of boilers (dome position specifically). Why the idea was adopted for the MN is for someone else to answer but it is unfortunately ugly, thankfully the method is no longer in fashion as the new Black Fives & Duchesses etc don't suffer from the same thing.
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I'm wandering of topic just a little here
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. Absolutely no offence intended at all re ugly & Merchant Navy in the same sentence. Although I'm an LNER biased modeller I did buy a MN simply because it did set a new & very high standard, not only for Hornby by for the whole industry, and it's also the model that single handedly rescued Hornby from a very uncertain future. If I remember rightly somthing like 20,000 units sold in the first 6 month after release, so, jolly good model really, shame about the ugly mould lines.
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