Hi Everyone.
As the title, my Hornby R3732 Lord Nelson Class "Sir Walter Raleigh" has arrived. I paid £96 for this, delivered, from Rails Of Sheffield. It is a nice model. I have run it in on my rolling road and it seems very smooth. A couple of anomalies though. Firstly, I had to drill out all the holes to fit the brake rigging on the loco. The tender was ok. I fit Kadees to all my stuff and the NEM coupler pocket on the tender is about a millimetre too low. I used one of the new height adjustable Kadees to remedy this. I wish these were available 10 or 15 years ago. I have ordered some Southern Route Discs for this plus a "Royal Wessex" headboard from Fox. Hopefully they will arrive soon. Lastly, I had a Hornby HM7000 8 pin decoder set aside for this. I plugged it into my ESU Decoder Tester yesterday to set it up and it's completely dead. Now the saga begins of trying to get this replaced.
Anyway, I'm off now to give it a run on my mate's large DC layout for a couple of hours.
As the title, my Hornby R3732 Lord Nelson Class "Sir Walter Raleigh" has arrived. I paid £96 for this, delivered, from Rails Of Sheffield. It is a nice model. I have run it in on my rolling road and it seems very smooth. A couple of anomalies though. Firstly, I had to drill out all the holes to fit the brake rigging on the loco. The tender was ok. I fit Kadees to all my stuff and the NEM coupler pocket on the tender is about a millimetre too low. I used one of the new height adjustable Kadees to remedy this. I wish these were available 10 or 15 years ago. I have ordered some Southern Route Discs for this plus a "Royal Wessex" headboard from Fox. Hopefully they will arrive soon. Lastly, I had a Hornby HM7000 8 pin decoder set aside for this. I plugged it into my ESU Decoder Tester yesterday to set it up and it's completely dead. Now the saga begins of trying to get this replaced.
Anyway, I'm off now to give it a run on my mate's large DC layout for a couple of hours.
