On the real trains forum is a story about the restoration and test run of the British steamer, the Flying Scotsman. Has anyone done this in "O" scale?
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Yes, by Sunset and available in kit form in the UK. The real thing should have gone to the scrapper, over £4m / $6 million for a restoration, a new build would have been around £1m, a monumentally mismanaged project of folly, £4m buys a lot of hospitals, orphanages, etc. The stupidity of middle aged men never ceases to amaze. Look at Tornado for what they should have done.
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nick
DJH in the U.K. has (or had) a brass kit, and Hachette Partworks issued "kits of a kit" a few years ago like a magazine subscription. You signed up and bought the kit in instalments that came in a magazine-style package. The final cost was around the same as the complete kit I think, but the Hachette one had a plastic boiler.
In addition to the aforementioned Sunset model and kits, ACE Trains released a three rail die-cast model of the A3. It was offered painted and detailed for a variety of locomotives and liveries, "Flying Scotsman" being one of them. Here is the link to the page regarding the A3 model on the ACE website:
http://www.acetrains.co.uk/Loc...0/e6lnera34-6-2.html
Also, for your information, here is the link to a Sunset/3rd Rail brochure containing information about its A3 model which was issued in 2004:
http://www.3rdrail.com/images/catupdate2004.pdf
I believe both the 3rd Rail and ACE A3s were released during the 2005-2006 time frame.
I hope this helps.
Bob
Bassett Lowke (Corgi) did the Flying Scotsman in 3 rail O gauge
Nick
For pre-war you can get Hornby or Bassett-Lowke which can generally be found on ebay and certainly on the ebay UK site. The Hornby engine is a 4-4-2 instead of a 4-6-2, while the Bassett-Lowke is more to scale and it also more expensive.
