From Miniature to BIG

Hi Mr Nigels...glad to see you back. Hope you had a wonderful Holiday Season.

Rivets and Wood...love it. Not many controls in the cab area are there? Is this HO, N maybe?

Question: when clicking on the images I don't get a larger picture where I can really get into the details. Is that something you do when you upload to the Postimage site?

Indeed the wood does look very realistic bearing in mind it is printed/painted onto just a normal model (plastic I suspect).  The reason you can't drill down to the detail is I cheated a little this time and just clipped the images from the Hornby site rather than get mine out of the pack to take pictures of.  Maybe I'll do that in the near future    As for scale it is traditional UK OO gauge as you'd expect from Hornby if it is not the new TT:120 scale.  This was the second release in this era of models and followed on from the 'Stephensons Rocket' train pack (which I missed first time round, although a new run is available on pre-order).  The third one is going to be 'Tiger' which is the sister train to 'Lion' and later in the year they are looking to produce 'Locomotion' (if I recall the name correctly).  A very different direction from them for sure...

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Glad to see you back! I was thinking about picking up Tiger now that he's on his own for £140 from the retailers, but i've found something else.(currently waiting for TMC to finish redesign their payment and ordering system... Hopefully today)

The Lion pack is definitely a much better purchase than the Tiger one due to the proper coaches included!
I hope the wood effect is just as nice as on the teak coaches, it sure does look like that in the photos from their website.

I have to admit I hadn't really gone out looking to buy this train pack, although I like the oldie-worldy design I thought the price was a bit on the high side at £239.99. However when it turned up in the Hornby January sale reduced to £129.98 it was just way too tempting, especially as I had £120 credit in the form of loyalty points, it meant after the club discount as well I only ended up paying £6 or thereabouts for it including the shipping charge lol!

Of course having got that I now will just have to get Stephenson's Rocket train pack at some point, after all no point having just one of that era of train and besides the Rocket is a masterpiece of miniaturisation, even in OO gauge everyone said they couldn't do it.  Of course there was the original Triang version from years ago, but the detail/scale was way out on that because the motors were just too big back then.  The current incarnation is true to scale and features incredibly fine detail, yet is even capable of being converted to DCC control having an 8 pin socket included on the model!  (It's in the barrel on the back as I recall.

I take your point about 'Tiger', although if you wanted the traditional rolling stock to go with it you could always get one of the coach packs that they make separately.  There are passenger and goods cars available in sets, again not so cheap, but very nice and detailed.  I don't know if you're aware but this era of models doesn't have your traditional friction lock type connectors on the loco's/coaches, instead they use miniature chain link connections - which can be fiddly I've read lol!

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For those interested here's a link to the entire range of loco's and rolling stock, train packs etc... for the 'pioneering' era models;

https://uk.hornby.com/catalogue/era/era-...y=8&page=1