Compton castle
Western Thunderer
Pete Harvey is working on a series of etches and castings to allow conversion to both the 43 & to the original build with headcode discs and triple reporting frame.
Thanks Mr Grumpy! When I saw the 15 guinea special leave Manchester that was the end for me. I don't think I did any serious railway photography afterwards. HOWEVER - that was a mistake. Fortunately, when steam was still around I had no aversion to photographing diesels, hence a reasonable collection of early BR diesels piccies.I just loved the Warships!! When I think back to the, Westerns Warships and Hymecks roaring out of Sonning cutting....oh and also the 'Blue Pullman' It makes me understand how the guys felt when their steam locos were scrapped.
The same can be said of the Western Richard, I quite like the Warship though & unless JLTRT do one it's probably the best we will getIt still looks nice, a bit like the Heljan 40, it looks like one until you really compare it to a photo or the JLTRT one then you can see the errors, I know I have 3 of each of them
Richard
You know you want one Pete as a 43 Didn't they get delivered from Glasgow via Leamington?
That about nails it really, windscreen isn't quite the right shape at the lower edge and overall shape, the nose is a bit bulged around the mid handrails and I think the roof profile might be slightly out, the cant rail grills are curved for the lower half and pretty flat for the top half, Heljans look curved through out the whole depth.Sadly it doesn't look fine to me, it could just be the photos but the windscreen angle looks wrong and the curvature on the front isn't the same , the model falls away too quickly for me.
It still looks nice, a bit like the Heljan 40, it looks like one until you really compare it to a photo or the JLTRT one then you can see the errors, I know I have 3 of each of them
Richard
That 's one way to approach itI know its wrong but I will still probably buy one, even if it stays in the box as a collectors item.
Richard
Tis true, but we'd all be naive if we thought everyone was tickled by creative modelling.Not a lot to do with creative model making though Mick