I have just received a couple of these from Hornby today. I plan to use the chassis to power narrow gauge locos. I was disappointed that the body was glued to the metal footplate so I won’t be able to salvage the footplate. They were still a bargain even without the footplate casting. Hornby be added resistors to these models a few years ago so they are no longer “pocket rockets”. Hope you can restore your Caley pug.
@@OrSomeBricks ah, thanks for the info on the resistors. That would make sense. Yeh the Chimney on the Pug looks a bit sorry for itself after being glued twice :-/
I think Hornby were trying to do something different and hoped that it might take off but aiming at a very limited market it never had a chance. Maybe in time it might become a collectable item who knows stranger things can happen.
I have just received a couple of these from Hornby today. I plan to use the chassis to power narrow gauge locos. I was disappointed that the body was glued to the metal footplate so I won’t be able to salvage the footplate. They were still a bargain even without the footplate casting. Hornby be added resistors to these models a few years ago so they are no longer “pocket rockets”. Hope you can restore your Caley pug.
@@OrSomeBricks ah, thanks for the info on the resistors. That would make sense. Yeh the Chimney on the Pug looks a bit sorry for itself after being glued twice :-/
I think Hornby were trying to do something different and hoped that it might take off but aiming at a very limited market it never had a chance. Maybe in time it might become a collectable item who knows stranger things can happen.
Steampunk is victorian futurism. That looks like jet engines on it.its a mechanical not digital look.poorly executed idea.shame really