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Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 6:13 pm
by drmditch
Sylar wrote:Next model announced is the V2. Potential for a boiler swap with the GBL A3? Any advice welcome!

Cheers

Shane
You don't happen to know when the (theoretical) publication date is do you?
I might plan a trip to Smiths (the only source local to Durham that I've found stock it) if the V2 is likely to be at all useful.

Difficult to see how it can be though - unless they have pioneered an entirely new moulding.

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 8:01 pm
by Saint Johnstoun
If anything else is to go by it will be a clone of the Bachmann one with all the same errors enhanced!

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 8:22 pm
by Sylar
drmditch wrote:
Sylar wrote:Next model announced is the V2. Potential for a boiler swap with the GBL A3? Any advice welcome!

Cheers

Shane
You don't happen to know when the (theoretical) publication date is do you?
I might plan a trip to Smiths (the only source local to Durham that I've found stock it) if the V2 is likely to be at all useful.

Difficult to see how it can be though - unless they have pioneered an entirely new moulding.
Due out two weeks tomorrow.

Cheers

Shane

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 2:15 pm
by Sylar
Just bought a couple of the latest release. It looks like a V2 but not quite. Boiler is the wrong shape as well as being oversize in the diameter. There should be more of a taper to it but I shall check it against the Bachmann version, from which it has been copied. Oh and that rear Cartazzi truck needs to go! pics up later when I am at home.

Cheers

Shane

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:25 pm
by Kestrel
V2 Green Arrow

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:48 pm
by Sylar
I won't have chance to do any pics tonight, I'll do some tomorrow so you can advise on how to improve it!

Cheers

Shane

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:27 pm
by Kestrel
Did anyone find out who is making these models? Should they be on BBC's 'Fake Britain' '?

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:05 pm
by Sylar
Don't alert the authorities until the series is complete, for what they are these are great models, warts and all! I want the set and am very interested to see what's coming in the future!

Cheers

Shane

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:22 am
by Saint Johnstoun
Green Arrow - It's a Bachmann clone with all the same faults as that model and more!

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 12:29 pm
by Flying Fox 34F
Might be useful for a spare tender! Mind you the body could yield certain basic bits like the footplate!
Paul 4475

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 12:37 pm
by Hatfield Shed
Between Bachmann regularly having the V2 loco and tender bodies available for sale as separate spares over the years, and Replica offering the B1 body and complete running tender as a spare, I was rather expecting that any modifiers would have got the parts already...

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:01 pm
by Atlantic 3279
The cylinders might eventually be of some use too.

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:12 am
by Kestrel
Issue 29, by my reckoning on Wednesday March 18th, is Holden's B12.

(Issue 28 on March 4th is an LMS 'Royal Scot'.)

http://greatbritishlocomotive.co.uk/_uk/?page_id=7

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:55 pm
by Kestrel
Issue 29, Holden's B12 is out tomorrow.

http://greatbritishlocomotive.co.uk/_uk/?page_id=7

Re: Great British Locomotives Magazine

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:51 am
by Kestrel
Checked it out in Asda this morning, only two on the shelf but they both had a splash of silver at the left side rear of the tender.

It was in green but just had white stripes on the loco whilst the tender had the white surround stripe with the white/black/white stripes inside it. Handrails were moulded on loco and tender and the loco's wheels were black. Might be worth £8.99 to someone.