From Miniature to BIG

I know what you mean, there was a recent Hornby special called Queen Elizabeth to celebrate the platinum jubilee of the queen.  It was modeled on a real loco that had been painted in 'royal purple' to celebrate the same.  Hornby made 2,500 of them and believe it or not I got the email about the pre-orders and immediately went to their site to order one only to find them already sold out - god knows how they were sold out so quickly.  Since these models that were priced if I recall about £200 are now listing on eBay at £500 plus, I mean that is insane as the limited edition is quite big to start with, secondly its not as if its one of the new Dublo models and hence desirable because it is die-cast as opposed to plastic.

Talking of which I just got my latest pre-order which is for one of the Dublo's, an example of the streamlined versions of the Merchant Navy class locomotives.  Absolutely stunning and likely to be a pricey collectible in the near future as these limited editions are limited to only 500 of each release.  This will be the fourth different Dublo model I've got as I missed a few early releases which occurred around the beginning of the pandemic.





Detail parts pack






Cab detail




Nice detail on the tender coal load




SUPER - check out that rivet detail!!!