Sunset Models brass ‘A4’
US manufacturer Sunset Models has announced a ready-to-run LNER/BR ‘A4’ 4-6-2 for 1:43.5 scale ‘O’ gauge.
Three versions are to be produced; No. 2509 Silver Link in LNER silver grey, LNER garter blue No. 4468 Mallard in 1938 record breaking condition and No. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley in post-1952 BR green.
The fully painted and detailed all-brass locomotives are being assembled in South Korea and will feature;
- sprung driving wheels
- Prototypical Cartazzi trailing truck
- finescale wheel profile
- operating Gresley valve gear with working inside cylinder motion
- Fully detailed boiler backhead
- Pittman motor
- Optional QSI Quantum sound system for DC or DCC operation, whistle and steam sounds and synchronised puffing smoke unit.
Models are priced at £1,100.00 (plus £50 post & packing from the USA and £100 for QSI sound option) and reservations are being taken now for delivery in March 2008.
The ‘A4’ follows on from the recently delivered LNER ‘A3’ 4-6-2, which is available now and portrays No. 4472/60103 Flying Scotsman in LNER, BR and preserved condition.
For more information and pictures, see www.3rdrail.com/euroscale.htm
1 comment:
I hope the A4 Mallard if it is as stated, to be produced in its pre-war guise, will not have, as shown in the illustration, the speed record plaque as this was not applied until BR days.
Also the non-corridor tender should have a curved rear end, not straight. The tender attached to Mallard in the NRM is not the original despite the builders plate number indicating it is. The number plate, 5642, is a copy of the original. The attached tender is really No.5670 which was attached to 4466 Herring Gull when new. Hornby never gets this right either.
The tender for Silver Link should also have a curved rear end along with the corridor connection. Hornby got this right with their latest Silver A4.
This information is from Loco Profile No.19 published by Profile Publications Ltd 1971.
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