Lol prices start from £180 plus sound. It's as expensive as you make it, as it depends of you want cylinder drains, lamps, finishing and all the fancy add ons (this engines doesn't have some) Probably best to email me or reach out via my website and we can discuss your requirements
Great job with the smoke! There are a couple of problem with the model though (I doubt they're your fault of course), that being that the lamps aren't LNER ones, the middle driving wheels are on the wrong side (return crank is leading instead of lagging behind the con rod), the whistle is missing, and the cab tarpaulin needs to be much thinner so that it can be fixed to the front of the tender's arch. fabulous install either way though. What you do is incredible to dinosaurs like I, who can only think in terms of tying a wick to a resistor and mindlessly pumping current through it!
As you say, the wheels are nothing to do with me, and are likely supplied like that from Hornby. The lamps are br you're correct, but current very little is available for working lamps, and at this scale on a passing train it's pretty impossible to notice. For example you're the first to pick up on it in probably 100 youtube videos lol keen eye! And ghr storm sheet I am trailing. I have a thinner material to try but it'll always be limited by the train set curves which is why it sits on the tender and isn't fixed in place.
@@trstrains9330 totally understandable. I’ve always been good at spotting inaccuracies on Gresley pacifics, for unknown reasons at that. I do agree about the availability of lamps. I was so fed up that I started turning my own from brass (the pre-1935 style of LNER lamp is unobtainable commercially). One thing that I will say on the Hornby A4 that you may now always notice from now on, is that the buffer beam cowling is only right for ex-works Silver Link! In the first few A4s, that part was hand formed, and was machine formed in the later ones, P2s, and the W1, but Hornby only made CAD using the drawings for the first batch of A4s, leaving only Pro-Scale kits with a half decent version of the buffer beam cowling. I can’t not notice it anymore.
I wish people wouldn't do demos like this on a rolling road because it really doesn't show a model to its best effect. Evaluating sound and smoke is a combination of seeing and hearing things happening, relative to the movement of a loco along the ground which you cannot see with a rolling road because the loco does not move. Please put it on a layout so that we can see and hear it to its full effect! It's good to see a 3 cylinder loco with 6 chuffs synchronised per wheel revolution as it should be so this is a good indication that the sound is correctly synchronised for this loco, but for many diesels, you can't tell whether the engine revs are consistent with the actual motion until you see the loco running on a layout. Rolling roads hide this. Unfortunately, many diesel sound packages have revving which is completely wrong for the speed and/or no thrash when there should be. Some people are a little more discerning than accepting anything that just makes a noise. Good loco, sound and smoke though!
@@trstrains9330 Yes, there's a lot on rolling roads! A few are on a layout and these are very effective. The only problem with them is that they are portrait which is very narrow in width and they don't follow the loco in some cases.
@gppsoftware the layout ones aren't all portrait, look a bit harder. This channel is just for reference when people ask 'have you done xyz' I'm not trying to make masterpiece film, and I don't have a layout of my own so I use the club. It is not possible to do so every week unless I go after hours when it's quiet which then cuts into work time during the day, or my down time in the evening. So, there is a mix of both.
I like it. Now how much to retrofit a fleet of 40 kettles from various manufacturers? 😮
Lol prices start from £180 plus sound. It's as expensive as you make it, as it depends of you want cylinder drains, lamps, finishing and all the fancy add ons (this engines doesn't have some)
Probably best to email me or reach out via my website and we can discuss your requirements
Great job with the smoke! There are a couple of problem with the model though (I doubt they're your fault of course), that being that the lamps aren't LNER ones, the middle driving wheels are on the wrong side (return crank is leading instead of lagging behind the con rod), the whistle is missing, and the cab tarpaulin needs to be much thinner so that it can be fixed to the front of the tender's arch. fabulous install either way though. What you do is incredible to dinosaurs like I, who can only think in terms of tying a wick to a resistor and mindlessly pumping current through it!
As you say, the wheels are nothing to do with me, and are likely supplied like that from Hornby. The lamps are br you're correct, but current very little is available for working lamps, and at this scale on a passing train it's pretty impossible to notice. For example you're the first to pick up on it in probably 100 youtube videos lol keen eye!
And ghr storm sheet I am trailing. I have a thinner material to try but it'll always be limited by the train set curves which is why it sits on the tender and isn't fixed in place.
@@trstrains9330 totally understandable. I’ve always been good at spotting inaccuracies on Gresley pacifics, for unknown reasons at that. I do agree about the availability of lamps. I was so fed up that I started turning my own from brass (the pre-1935 style of LNER lamp is unobtainable commercially). One thing that I will say on the Hornby A4 that you may now always notice from now on, is that the buffer beam cowling is only right for ex-works Silver Link! In the first few A4s, that part was hand formed, and was machine formed in the later ones, P2s, and the W1, but Hornby only made CAD using the drawings for the first batch of A4s, leaving only Pro-Scale kits with a half decent version of the buffer beam cowling. I can’t not notice it anymore.
I wish people wouldn't do demos like this on a rolling road because it really doesn't show a model to its best effect.
Evaluating sound and smoke is a combination of seeing and hearing things happening, relative to the movement of a loco along the ground which you cannot see with a rolling road because the loco does not move.
Please put it on a layout so that we can see and hear it to its full effect!
It's good to see a 3 cylinder loco with 6 chuffs synchronised per wheel revolution as it should be so this is a good indication that the sound is correctly synchronised for this loco, but for many diesels, you can't tell whether the engine revs are consistent with the actual motion until you see the loco running on a layout. Rolling roads hide this. Unfortunately, many diesel sound packages have revving which is completely wrong for the speed and/or no thrash when there should be. Some people are a little more discerning than accepting anything that just makes a noise.
Good loco, sound and smoke though!
Have you flicked through my other videos at all?
@@trstrains9330 Yes, there's a lot on rolling roads! A few are on a layout and these are very effective. The only problem with them is that they are portrait which is very narrow in width and they don't follow the loco in some cases.
@gppsoftware the layout ones aren't all portrait, look a bit harder. This channel is just for reference when people ask 'have you done xyz' I'm not trying to make masterpiece film, and I don't have a layout of my own so I use the club. It is not possible to do so every week unless I go after hours when it's quiet which then cuts into work time during the day, or my down time in the evening. So, there is a mix of both.