Silver Sidelines

This Post is a continuation of my recent foray into Hornby Super Detail Britannias https://longsheds.blogspot.com/2021/06/no-164-tale-of-two-hornby-super-detail.html Back in 2014 Hornby sold off a lot of Diamond Jubilee boxed sets.   These included 70000 Britannia in ‘Special Duties’ livery.   This was Britannia’s preserved livery as featured in 2012 when Prince Charles was a passenger and included an Early Emblem and the original ‘dangerous’ pattern smoke deflectors.   The model also featured a speedometer drive which Britannia itself gained around 1956.     My Hornby model also had fluted coupling rods which on the prototype had been changed to solid rods in the early 1950s. Hornby R3094 Diamond Jubilee Train Pack In a past Blog Post in 2014 I described overpainting the cab roof of the Special Duties model and backdating the overhead warning plates. https://longsheds.blogspot.com/2014/04/no91-shades-of-green-hornby-britannia.html   My Britan...

I have a fascination for Hornby’s super detail Britannia and Clan models.   This Post looks at some variations that Hornby have not produced. Firstly I am also rather partial to things ‘Great Western’.   When I spotted Hornby super detail Morning Star rebadged by The Model Centre (TMC) I would make a bid for it.   It was a big bid and Morning Star duly arrived. Morning Star I am generally not bothered about details such as counting the number of rivets but on this occasion the position of the Morning Star name plates did not seem right. TMC Morning Star with high level plates There is a useful image on Flickr of Morning Star in 1958 shortly after it had moved from the Western Region to the London Midland Region.   It is still without its speedometer but clearly shows a single front step, raised sand boxes and the correct position of the name plates. https://flic.kr/p/NkD7We I repositioned the plates and repainted the deflectors – a better result I th...