It's prototypes like this that make me give serious thought to a Pre-Grouping model. Elegant loco's with colourful liveries.
Apart from the LNWR and L&Y in my neck of the woods 

John P

Quote from: martyn on August 11, 2021, 01:06:00 PM
How about a V1-V3 or an L1 for us?

M

Langley do a white metal kit for the L1. Still in production I believe

Richard T

EDIT: Just realised that you probably meant the Thompson L1, the production of which caused the ex-GCR L1s (the subject of the Langley kit) to be reclassified L3. 

(I'm willing to believe that a lot of the anti-Thompson stories are exaggerated or biased, but that habit he had of insisting that his new designs took the "1" top slot in their LNER classification, even if there already was a an existing class so numbered, speaks to a big ego...)

Richard;

Yes, it was the Thompson Concrete Mixer I'd like to see somehow. I did build, but later sold on, the ex GCR L1/L3.

Regarding Thompson, he did some good designs-the B1, K1 (but better when modified by Peppercorn), but not only did he choose Gresley's first pacific, 'Great Northern', for his A1 rebuild, he also chose 'Claud Hamilton' himself as the subject of the first D16/3 rebuild.

But the rebuilt Clauds and B12/3s did perform better after rebuilding on the duties they carried out. Other classes had good and bad points. (Though the D16/3 and B12/3 were nominally Gresley designs, the work was actually carried out by Thompson when he was in charge at Stratford).

Martyn