Hornby Star 'Knight of St Patrick'

[SpeedtotheWest]

Looking at photos on a retailers website shewing this new stock it would appear that Hornby have heeded the warning about no pipes being fitted to this model post war.However, quality control issues still plague as the wrong bogie wheels,too many spokes, have been fitted yet again.It's Lode Star all over again.Why do we keep getting errors on GWR models ?

[The son of Triangman]

Personally the wrong bogie or not enough spokes doesn't worry me, it's not a quality control issue as QC means build quality, it's a detailing quality issue.  OO is an inaccurate scale, a compromise scale anyway with most locos being a compromise and most people using inaccurate track and narrow gauge" of 16.5mm.

 

Also you need to consider the GWR had a high degree of parts standardisation, so locos needing overhaul weren't necessarily coupled to the same tender or had the same bogie they went into Swindon works with when their overhaul was done.

 

Found this quote on the web, "the only period when the appearance of the class was approximately uniform was from 1925 to 1927".

 

Some Stars even ran with Castle bogies after overhaul due to parts standardisation.

 

It was a matter of getting a loco back on the road as soon as possible after overhaul so it could earn revenue. If a bogie or other part had been overhauled and was ready and it fitted it was put on the loco.

 

Most locos of the big four in preservation are made up of parts with other locos ID's stamped on them. Flying Scotsman has used the cylinder block and boiler from Salmon Trout for instance.

 

[JeremiahBunyan]

I never try counting the spokes on a running locomotive's wheels. As a matter of fact I never count spokes on an idle locos wheels either. If one keen chap never noticed this issue with the spokes no one else would've.

 

I completely agree with SoT it's not a QC issue it's a detailing issue. No where in the world does QC sit and count spokes.

 

Of course if you're unhappy you have two choices if you cannot live with it, send it back and get a refund or buy a set of replacement wheels, no one is forcing you to keep it.

[SpeedtotheWest]

Of course no one is forcing me to buy it but when I spending up to 150 sheets on a model I'm expecting the detail to be correct.Of course it would never happen with a LNER product,would it !

[Postman Prat]

Don't feel as though you're a victim

That's the reason a large percentage of LNER Green are wrong in about half a dozen ways!!

[81F]

@SpeedtotheWest 

 

Thanks for telling me about the wrong number of spokes, I would probably never have noticed, now it will knaw at me until I change them lol 😆

 

Presumably all the Stars are wrong! Does anyone know of a hornby spare with the correct number that will fit?

[SpeedtotheWest]

http://www.petersspares.com/hornby-x6896-star-4000-class-front-bogie.ir?cName=spares-hornby-spares-all

Here's a replacement.

[The son of Triangman]

But is the bogie wrong, or have Hornby modelled it from a time period when it ran with another bogie from a different class?

[Postman Prat]

 Hi

 

Sorry, in my post above re LNER Green I failed to type Flying Scotsman. Only excuse I've got is I had two telephone calls in the short time it took to do that post. One of those was trying to get me to sign up to a PPI claim so that was waste of time!!

[81F]

 The wheels on my Adderly Hall bogies look right, (10 spoke) so I think I will try a set of these before ordering replacements.