Maybe it's me, but I think it looks beautiful, so streamlined its almost unbelievable, especially when you consider when it was designed (long before the idea of wind tunnels etc). It is also nice to see a model being produced by a major manufacturer of a locomotive that was only around for a few years and of which there were only about 5 or 6 made (I can never remember). Technically the real thing was a bit of a failure as the high pressure boiler was a radically different design and it simply was not as efficient as hoped, but you have to try these things to find the next big breakthrough. Maybe in this day and age it would be a different outcome if anyone was prepared to look into such things now.
As for the lamps, well you have to remember the era we're talking about, this is all they had and were the 'norm' on all locomotives. The only reason you don't normally see them on the models is that all these individually fitted details cost money and push up the price of the final item, sometimes you get them provided in 'detail packs' so you can fit them yourself, but most people don't do it for fear of glue leakage or whatever spoiling the finish lol! Now what I'm toying with is do I fit a standard DCC decoder or do I go for a sound decoder. The only downside is there isn't a dedicated sound decoder for this particular class of loco as they were all scrapped long before anybody started recording such sounds. So if I do fit one I'll have to pick another loco model and put that in, although I guess it doesn't matter as nobody knows what they really sounded like or is able to dispute it so any good sound decoder should work fine!
As for the lamps, well you have to remember the era we're talking about, this is all they had and were the 'norm' on all locomotives. The only reason you don't normally see them on the models is that all these individually fitted details cost money and push up the price of the final item, sometimes you get them provided in 'detail packs' so you can fit them yourself, but most people don't do it for fear of glue leakage or whatever spoiling the finish lol! Now what I'm toying with is do I fit a standard DCC decoder or do I go for a sound decoder. The only downside is there isn't a dedicated sound decoder for this particular class of loco as they were all scrapped long before anybody started recording such sounds. So if I do fit one I'll have to pick another loco model and put that in, although I guess it doesn't matter as nobody knows what they really sounded like or is able to dispute it so any good sound decoder should work fine!
Happily collecting things all my life... 
(This post was last modified: 12-18-2021, 02:15 PM by Super.)
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