Oh my god this looks real. The super-detail and weathering on the models and layout + camera work really sells it. The paint texture/weathering on the engines is impossibly good, and the detailed brickwork and convincing grass on these locations... Wow. I'm blown away this is amazing!
I don't think I've ever enjoyed a railway video as much as that. You captured the drama, the power and the romance of high speed travel in that age. Awesome.
Hands down the most incredible model railway video I’ve ever seen. Even with my bias there is just no denying that fact. You’ve absolutely outdone yourself and this will be a video I’ll watch again and again! 🙌🏻
Thanks Ashley, so glad you enjoyed it! It was a privilege to be involved with your project of creating all 5 Coronation A4’s what a site that must be on your layout 💨💨💨💨💨
I was holding my breath there for a minute to see who won!!!! Detail live shot added to the "realism". Superb as usual👍🏻👍🏻 (the blue one was my favourite!!)
@@NEVILLEGROVE I know you once did a short with the union pacific big boy and American rollingstock, but do you have any other American locomotives and rollingstock in your collection and have you ever considered using them?
Often model railway operators run their trains at out of scale fast speeds. In this video you are running the trains at HIGH SPEED and it's awesome! What a brilliant idea. With your layout which can accommodate the two trains you really brought the race to life. The excitement was palpable and you easily forget they are just models!
Brilliant, just brilliant. What an excellent video. The close ups, the sound track even to the loint of som music in a nearby town as the train passes. You get a real sence of the real thing. Hands down the best model railway vid I have ever seen.🎉🎉
@@tommytheblackfive4467 😂 I try and reply to as many comments as I can, I’m so grateful to people for watching and engaging 👍👍👍 But I have a bit of catching up to do at the moment 😅
WOW. Simply superb stuff. Being from Berwick upon Tweed I’m always going to come down on the LNER side , but both locomotives are absolute beauties. Imagine being a schoolboy in the inter war years and being able to see beasts like these at your local station. I’d never be in the house! Keep up the good work , your videos are amazing - in fact I prefer watching them to most of the TV programmes on nowadays! ;)
Haha thanks Duncan, thats a wonderful to know! Yeah it really would have been spectacular. Would probably have to get on a push bike though in those days to get over to Shap from Berwick - quite a ride but worth it!
I have to say I am very impressed with your video’s. Use of some great camera angles with some nice close ups too. Add this to a fantastic layout with subtly weathered stock & you have a recipe for some great footage.
Awesome, thank you very much for all your kind words. The layout is very much still a work in progress with much detail & weathering to add, but it does a job!
This , with a bit of artistic licence , and no small amount of CGI , could become a fantastic big screen movie . The story of Stanier ; his friendship , and rivalry with Greeley ; Greeley’s friendship with Bugatti ; pre war trips to Germany to check out the opposition , including the Rail Zeppelin . What a movie that could be !
That was honestly beautiful. Two amazing trains, taken advantage of hornby's beautiful and spitting image of them and making them race. Fantastic dynamic! Please do Flying Scotsman vs another a3 pacific, that would be great!
Thanks very much, I'll keep this format in mind for future videos, although I don't own a single A3 pacific as yet but hopefully that will change soon enough.
Ah thanks very much, tried to give it some plausibility, but really its just a bit of fun not grounded in authenticity. As far as I know, their respective railways out of London were never in sight of each other, but would have been within whistling distance.
Nice video. The layout looks outstanding. 👍 Nicely videoed too. Excellent work. It must be nice to have the space to run competing trains side by side. Most of us are stuck with islend layouts due to space and functionality restrictions. Well done on your layout design and build. Beautiful job. Happy Modelling.
@@NEVILLEGROVE No thank you Sir for allowing use to see your skill. I'm just getting back into the hobby. And I thought lets do N scale. My old eyes have a time trying to do it. Can you tell me why British engines have no head light? I have all ways wondered why. Have a good one.
Many thanks Mr T! The blue really comes up nicely with some polish / weathering, I must admit it does make a huge difference to the overall appearance.
We all love Nigel Gresley, but I must admit that William Stanier's Coronation streamline loco shape and the livery of its whole train were really elegant.
Since you made the first video with Coronation Scot you have close coupled the coaches. Your skills, layout and trains are above and beyond superb. It would be great if you did some 'How to ' videos, like how to do close coupling of Hornby coaches, weathering, etc..
Thanks very much, yes this set has been weathered for a customer and I cited the close couplings / corridor connections too which was easy as they’re all supplied with the coaches. Just a case of swapping them over 👍
I agree with the person below me because this is so smooth and the best layout I have ever seen and this inspires me to make my own one good on ya mate :)
@@NEVILLEGROVE Ah, so no use to me then as I'm Android phone and Microsoft Windows laptop. Just got Microsoft HD Movie Maker PRO for the laptop. I'll see how that goes to join two fly fishing videos together after I accidentally stopped the filming and had to press record again to continue.
@@andrewdking oh well good luck with that! I’m sure there are equally good Apps for Android. iMovie has its limitations but it’s excellent really. Amazing what you can do on a phone.
It is a customised version of the ID Backscenes products. The chap who designed them there has sadly passed away, but it may be possible to get them customised by Scalology who have taken them over. Off the shelf versions are widely available however through numerous retailers.
I believe they came with the loco in the detail pack. They were then expertly converted to working lamps with LEDs by GLR bespoke solutions. I’m not sure where you can get the streamlined lamps from aftermarket unfortunately.
There's just something so lovely about seeing two of the most famous streamlined locomotives running together! The level of detail of what you have is superb, and I especially liked how you've got 4490 _Empire of India_ as the A4/LNER representative; that's one I've always been pretty fond of, myself.
Ah thanks Alex, glad you enjoyed it! A bit of fun really but an interesting comparison between these to giants of British steam. Yes I like EoI too, it’s the 5th Coronation out of the 5 that I’ve helped recreate for @lnersteam and just happened to be the one here at the same time as 6220. Thanks for watching.
Very nicely done - indeed. Two things about the A4. A shame LNER insisted on painting the front black, but otherwise when standing on a platform - which 99% of people would have done in the day - the A4 appears the sleeker because the wheels are so nicely hidden.
Thanks! Yes possibly, and it has a greater rake to the front nose. But it struck me when working on "Coronation" (my first streamlined Stanier after many A4's) how much attention to detail was put in by the LMS drawing office (and commendably Hornby). For example the handrails terminate by curving and disappearing into the casing whereas on the A4 they abruptly end on a spigot as per conventional steam loco designs. The complex and compound curves of the LMS streamlined casing is also very impressive - seeing 6229 at the NRM for the first time was breathtaking.
