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Dusty Shelf Collectables: New release - Hornby Black 5, With Steam Generator R30225SS


Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyCd_QmtJRQ
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess
New release - Hornby Black 5, With Steam Generator R30225SS Dusty Shelf Collectables Dec 29, 2024 4.38K subscribers ... 7,422 views ... 250 likes #hornby #modelrailways Not the review I wanted to make. It was going so well until I tried the Steam Generator and no Steam I spent hours trying to get it to work but to no avail, but thank you to all those who commented in the first hours the video was like to point out I loaded a non steam generator profile. I was so disappointed, but feel better about the situation, even though the correct profile is not available yet, however I still I feel this is one of the best models ever from Hornby so I will leave this review live and follow up once the correct profile is available. Join me for a look at the new release of the Stanier Black 5 from Hornby. #hornby #modelrailways Music 1 songs Bluesy Vibes Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions Bluesy Vibes Music Transcript
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  • [Music]
  • well hi have veryone welcome to Dusty
  • shelf and uh I hope you had a very nice
  • Christmas um so we are the weekend
  • between Christmas and the new year and
  • I've actually just had a delivery from
  • Hornby which I quite excited about and
  • I'll talk you through it you will have
  • already seen in the sort of introduction
  • and the thumbnail you'll have an idea of
  • what's in this box but uh those that
  • watch the channel know that I like to do
  • the unboxing sort of from scratch so as
  • I see it uh you see it yeah without
  • taking it out of the box and uh sort of
  • planning what I'm going to say ahead I
  • do
  • prefer to uh say it as I see it and uh
  • yeah hopefully I'll just move that light
  • it's falling over I'm in the middle of a
  • restoration the moment in fact what I'm
  • going to do bring you a clean bit of car

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  • uh put underneath cuz I've been working
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  • in here this
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  • afternoon uh working on this uh horie
  • 1:09
  • Loco that uh will be coming up on the
  • 1:10
  • channel shortly but anyway um back to
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  • this so this is
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  • r302 25 SS it's a steam model um let you
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  • see at the end here if I just uh take
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  • this out it's a br stania 5mt black 5
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  • with the steam
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  • generator so I say quite looking forward
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  • to this one
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  • just slide it out all it's packaging and
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  • then we'll talk through the ordering
  • 1:38
  • process oh lovely looking box that's
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  • very nice very similar to the F Scotsman
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  • box um really sturdy packaging I really
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  • do like this now I put this on order uh
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  • January
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  • 2023 so this has been on order for well
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  • 24 months now when I plac my order uh
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  • just under two years ago placed it

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  • direct with Hornby and I locked this in
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  • at a price of £
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  • 22499 and to be fair I forgot all about
  • 2:09
  • it well just looking on the website this
  • 2:11
  • Loco has now increased in price to
  • 2:16
  • 31999 with some of the retailers
  • 2:18
  • reducing it down to £290 Pish so when
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  • this came into stock I saw it uh was
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  • about to be released and uh if some of
  • 2:27
  • you who saw my previous video on Locomo
  • 2:30
  • listen to me moaning about the fact that
  • 2:32
  • both models both Locomotion models were
  • 2:34
  • released on the same day just before
  • 2:36
  • Christmas and having to find the funds
  • 2:38
  • for two of those models well this one's
  • 2:41
  • just come straight after Christmas so
  • 2:43
  • it's a third sort of horie expensive
  • 2:45
  • horie model that's landed on my doorstep
  • 2:47
  • so this one's had to go straight on the
  • 2:49
  • credit card but with such a well let's
  • 2:52
  • say a lower price not a lowish price a
  • 2:54
  • lower price I couldn't let this one go
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  • past me as I say I'd locked it in at
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  • £224 which which I think is an absolute

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  • bargain for you know the steam generator
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  • models by horie um now this one is
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  • supposed to be new told it's supposed to
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  • be a game changer it's supposed to be
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  • all of the you know everything that
  • 3:12
  • homie's got all thrown at one model so
  • 3:14
  • quite excited to see what's inside the
  • 3:16
  • box and how good this model really is
  • 3:19
  • now before I jump into the box and
  • 3:20
  • everything else let's go back to the
  • 3:22
  • catalogs so back in 2022 so this is a
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  • year before the black fivs were
  • 3:28
  • announced on new toour now these aren't
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  • steam generators these are you know just
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  • a a newly toed black 5 you see here R30
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  • 226 and R30 224 now notice the 225 is
  • 3:41
  • not there um and the model we're
  • 3:44
  • reviewing today is in fact
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  • r225 SS so steam generator but these
  • 3:51
  • were announced these were told I believe
  • 3:54
  • these were released I didn't order one
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  • so I'm not totally sure whether these
  • 3:57
  • actually even hit the shelves but I

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  • understand that possibly some of this
  • 4:01
  • tooling was then used or it's the same
  • 4:04
  • tooling to the 2023 version which does
  • 4:07
  • have some enhancements and we just come
  • 4:10
  • over to here and this is the one we're
  • 4:11
  • reviewing today announced in 2023 this
  • 4:15
  • with the steam generator it's got the
  • 4:18
  • flickering Firebox it's got the lamps
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  • for on the front it's basically got
  • 4:23
  • everything thrown at it now it does say
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  • all over their website new new tooled so
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  • whether they've modified the tool from
  • 4:30
  • 2022 if indeed it was released or this
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  • is again a newer version on what was
  • 4:36
  • released in 20222 I can't tell you but
  • 4:38
  • I'm sure somebody will put in the
  • 4:40
  • comments and uh fill in the blanks as I
  • 4:42
  • said I didn't order the 2022 so I got no
  • 4:44
  • reference point on that but the one we
  • 4:47
  • are reviewing today is this one here
  • 4:49
  • which is the as I say the 2023 release
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  • and the one thing I would say about 2023
  • 4:54
  • and the reason why this is probably
  • 4:56
  • taken so long to get here is if just
  • 4:58
  • cast their minds back to what was being
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  • released we had the hush hush um all of
  • 5:03
  • these different new Locos were announced
  • 5:05
  • in
  • 5:06
  • 2023 and um yeah I guess they sort of
  • 5:09
  • got ahead of themselves the O the 100
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  • Years of the Flying Scotsman all of
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  • these models have come before this one
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  • and I guess hor be probably you know
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  • probably a bit of more than they can
  • 5:21
  • chew and uh announc more models than
  • 5:23
  • they could possibly make in a year but
  • 5:25
  • uh glad to see it's finally here the
  • 5:27
  • only other one from 2023 which has
  • 5:29
  • arrived is the deltic um and I believe
  • 5:32
  • that's now been pushed out to the back
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  • end of
  • 5:35
  • 2025 but uh we'll see when that uh when
  • 5:38
  • that
  • 5:39
  • arrives let's just walk around the Box
  • 5:41
  • very quickly so on the front here black
  • 5:42
  • five as you can see BR stania 5 Mt black
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  • 5 460 number
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  • 4472 6 so black five there was only
  • 5:51
  • actually I believe there was only
  • 5:52
  • actually one of them ever named the rest
  • 5:54
  • were all known by their their um Works
  • 5:56
  • numbers and uh were affectionately
  • 5:59
  • called Black FES um on the top here you
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  • got the steam generator logo you got the
  • 6:04
  • sound logo all on the hm7000 ship so
  • 6:07
  • basically this is controlled from your
  • 6:09
  • mobile phone your iPad whatever you've
  • 6:11
  • got uh sort of device it's all Bluetooth
  • 6:14
  • controlled um latest technology and I've
  • 6:17
  • had very success with it with the Flying
  • 6:19
  • Scotsman you'll know from the reviews I
  • 6:20
  • did the smoke generator basically um you
  • 6:24
  • get a a film builds over the top as it's
  • 6:27
  • running around on the layout and
  • 6:28
  • eventually the uh the steam stops which
  • 6:30
  • is a shame but when it is working it's
  • 6:33
  • absolute GameChanger it's one of the
  • 6:34
  • most beautiful things I've got going
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  • around on the the layout at the moment
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  • um minimum radius 438 mm and again it's
  • 6:42
  • got the DCC fitted 21 pin connector uh
  • 6:45
  • just around the Box on this side just a
  • 6:48
  • schematic of the locco and you can see
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  • the seam generator uh logo on the side
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  • there on the end of the box I'm going to
  • 6:53
  • try and show you this uh it's not as
  • 6:55
  • easy to see so just repeating the uh
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  • number R30
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  • 225 SS and it's the steam generator era
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  • 5 this Loco um lot lot of conversation
  • 7:08
  • been happening about eras on the
  • 7:10
  • previous video I did on Locomotion so
  • 7:12
  • it's great to see uh if nothing else my
  • 7:15
  • uh mistake in cor era 2 has uh prompted
  • 7:17
  • a little bit of debate there which is
  • 7:19
  • great anyway back on to this side
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  • there's a lot of information here about
  • 7:22
  • the stania black 5 um what I'll do is
  • 7:25
  • I'll come back to this um once we get
  • 7:27
  • some detailed shots of the logo and I'll
  • 7:29
  • just just read a few of these bits out
  • 7:31
  • uh just to fill in while we're looking
  • 7:32
  • at the actual train itself but let's
  • 7:35
  • actually get into the box oh and I
  • 7:36
  • missed this out here look at this isn't
  • 7:38
  • that wonderful I do like that yeah very
  • 7:41
  • good uh says on a not to
  • 7:44
  • scale uh it's actually got I'm just
  • 7:46
  • checking it's the dimensions of the uh
  • 7:49
  • the actual train not the model on there
  • 7:50
  • so here you can see look
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  • 12,15 mm uh not that uh when this was
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  • built millimet were a thing
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  • there you go right let's slide it out
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  • the box can I get into it without doing
  • 8:04
  • any
  • 8:06
  • damage that's very tricky to get into
  • 8:08
  • I'll tell you
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  • that right it's coming
  • 8:17
  • now now again it's fantastic to see
  • 8:20
  • Hornby engaging in proper packaging for
  • 8:23
  • their models we went through such a
  • 8:24
  • period of sort of flimsy boxes and uh
  • 8:27
  • yeah throwaway packaging and it's great
  • 8:30
  • to see a really substantial box
  • 8:31
  • especially for this quality model um
  • 8:34
  • again foam packing inside and we just
  • 8:37
  • slide this off and there's the model uh
  • 8:41
  • right let's pull this out so that's the
  • 8:44
  • blister pack let's have a look at the
  • 8:46
  • instructions
  • 8:47
  • first right I'm just going to move the
  • 8:49
  • box out of the way so you can see the
  • 8:50
  • foam inside here keep your model nice
  • 8:53
  • forever um great to see and as I say I'm
  • 8:57
  • I'm really pleased to see H be uh as I
  • 8:59
  • say engaging in some decent
  • 9:02
  • packaging so instructions uh operating
  • 9:05
  • and maintenance instructions they give
  • 9:07
  • you some running hints here all the
  • 9:09
  • usual things that I think we've seen on
  • 9:10
  • these instructions many times let's get
  • 9:12
  • into the interesting
  • 9:14
  • bit
  • 9:15
  • so there's actually a awful lot to go
  • 9:18
  • through in these instructions so this
  • 9:19
  • start over here so we've got lubrication
  • 9:22
  • points on the Loco uh the usual along
  • 9:24
  • the mechanism and the motion uh on the
  • 9:27
  • axles as well um I'm assuming this would
  • 9:29
  • have decent uh you know decent bearings
  • 9:32
  • in the axles for the cost of the model
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  • we've got DCC decoda sound fitting so
  • 9:37
  • that's say the actual chip is located in
  • 9:39
  • the tender it shows you how to get the
  • 9:40
  • tender body off with a couple of screws
  • 9:42
  • and then lifting up the uh the the body
  • 9:45
  • in sort of a rotation motion and you've
  • 9:47
  • got on here the speaker fitted in the
  • 9:49
  • tender along with the uh decoders the
  • 9:53
  • accessories pack seems to be something
  • 9:55
  • else so we have number one a chain guard
  • 9:58
  • plate number two front steps left hand
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  • and right hand then we have number three
  • 10:04
  • which are the drain coocks as you can
  • 10:05
  • see here number four is the LMS
  • 10:09
  • snowplow number five is the British Rail
  • 10:13
  • snowplow number six is the lower vac
  • 10:16
  • pipe then we go on to number seven which
  • 10:19
  • are the nem coupling and hook uh down
  • 10:22
  • here uh number eight is the bogey NM
  • 10:25
  • pocket number nine is the tablet catcher
  • 10:28
  • on the side of the uh cab there so
  • 10:31
  • number 10 we've got the driver and
  • 10:33
  • fireman as you can see here uh number 11
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  • we've got a Smoke Box lamp bracket just
  • 10:40
  • here number 11 there number 12 is a foot
  • 10:43
  • plate lamp bracket and number 13 is a
  • 10:45
  • foot plate lamp assembly with which you
  • 10:47
  • get two now down here this is all new to
  • 10:49
  • me basically you can adjust the lamp
  • 10:52
  • codes on the Loco I'm not sure how it's
  • 10:54
  • uh how it's um actually done on the Loco
  • 10:57
  • yet I we'll have a look in a moment but
  • 10:59
  • basically you can uh reposition the
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  • lamps that are supplied on the logo and
  • 11:03
  • these lamps actually do light up so
  • 11:06
  • choosing your configuration you can then
  • 11:08
  • position the lamps with uh a little
  • 11:10
  • guide here to you know explain what the
  • 11:13
  • lamp codes are um I'm not aware of them
  • 11:15
  • I'm not that familiar with them
  • 11:16
  • obviously I know that there's different
  • 11:17
  • lamp positions for different Mo
  • 11:19
  • movements of uh different Locos but uh I
  • 11:21
  • don't know off by heart so obviously
  • 11:24
  • each of these lamp codes would give uh
  • 11:26
  • indicative of what the train is actually
  • 11:28
  • is to I guess the signal but so the lamp
  • 11:31
  • codes down the bottom here although I'm
  • 11:33
  • I'm aware of them I'm not familiar with
  • 11:34
  • them all I don't know them to Memory but
  • 11:36
  • obviously these uh signify a different
  • 11:39
  • types of trains so we got one here which
  • 11:40
  • is an Express passenger train with the
  • 11:42
  • lamps either side of the Loco at the
  • 11:44
  • front there the one in the middle just
  • 11:46
  • in the middle of the Smoke Box door is
  • 11:48
  • an ordinary passenger train and so on
  • 11:51
  • and it says here your black five is
  • 11:52
  • supplied with lamps on the Smoke Box
  • 11:54
  • door and Center foot plate positions
  • 11:56
  • this configuration represents an class H
  • 12:00
  • thorough freight train common use of the
  • 12:02
  • black five so this is set up for to suit
  • 12:04
  • most modelers however as we mentioned
  • 12:07
  • you can change the lamps to suit your uh
  • 12:09
  • needs however it does say although the
  • 12:12
  • lamps are designed to be a tight fit due
  • 12:14
  • to the scale of the foot pant and lamps
  • 12:16
  • changing these over is quite fiddly and
  • 12:18
  • a good degree of modeling ability is
  • 12:20
  • required to change his over so I'm
  • 12:22
  • taking from that that this isn't
  • 12:23
  • something that you change regularly on
  • 12:26
  • your layout so I don't think these lamps
  • 12:28
  • are designed to be moved whilst you're
  • 12:30
  • sort of uh you know using the Loco I
  • 12:33
  • think basically you choose your setup
  • 12:35
  • move your lamps to where they want to be
  • 12:37
  • and then you leave well
  • 12:38
  • alone over on the back here we've got a
  • 12:41
  • coupling between the Loco and tender so
  • 12:43
  • no more of the wire sort of hanging
  • 12:44
  • between the two we've got the tongue
  • 12:46
  • coupling into the tender um I still
  • 12:48
  • worry about the uh little uh ball joint
  • 12:51
  • that's on these how robust they are but
  • 12:54
  • having said that I've had it on a few
  • 12:55
  • Locos now and I've not managed to break
  • 12:57
  • one yet so uh yes looking good um and
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  • then we've got obviously the smoke
  • 13:02
  • generator information about how to run
  • 13:04
  • it and filling the uh Reservoir if you
  • 13:07
  • remember on The Flying Scotsman we had
  • 13:08
  • that little little tiny little plug that
  • 13:11
  • you pulled out from behind the chimney
  • 13:13
  • um really prone to getting lost and not
  • 13:15
  • very worried about losing mine and I
  • 13:17
  • can't seem to see that still as a spare
  • 13:19
  • anywhere but on this one little bit
  • 13:21
  • better we got removal of the Smoke Box
  • 13:23
  • door and then there's a little filling
  • 13:25
  • point to fill the reservoir for the
  • 13:27
  • steam generator and then these ones are
  • 13:29
  • the instructions for the hm7000 ship um
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  • I'll come back to these I may actually
  • 13:34
  • need to go back through these cuz I
  • 13:35
  • can't remember how you add a loco onto
  • 13:37
  • the uh onto the system but um I'm going
  • 13:40
  • to give that a go in a moment but as I
  • 13:42
  • said we'll come back to those so moment
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  • I've been waiting for after all that
  • 13:46
  • talking let's get into the packet and
  • 13:48
  • let's have a look at this
  • 13:50
  • loo already it looks stunning it really
  • 13:53
  • does look
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  • stunning just move that out the way
  • 13:59
  • and here's the accessories pack so in
  • 14:03
  • here
  • 14:04
  • indeed we got a couple of snow plowers
  • 14:07
  • there very strange thing to include in a
  • 14:09
  • logo isn't it snow plowers um but uh I
  • 14:13
  • guess if you're inum modeling of a a
  • 14:16
  • winter scene particularly at this time
  • 14:18
  • of year yeah might be a nice thing to
  • 14:20
  • have um and also in the bag we can see
  • 14:23
  • the fireman and Driver we've got the
  • 14:26
  • brake mechanism for the tender there's
  • 14:28
  • the drain box just to the side there I'm
  • 14:30
  • hoping these are coming out on the
  • 14:31
  • camera I don't want to take these out
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  • and then we got the tiny little lamps
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  • absolutely tiny little lamps you can
  • 14:37
  • just see on my finger there um yeah I
  • 14:41
  • really don't want to open this bag in
  • 14:42
  • case I lose any of the bits out of here
  • 14:44
  • and then there's other bits on here that
  • 14:46
  • was the uh token collector to go on the
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  • side of the cab and uh yeah all the
  • 14:52
  • other little bits in there great to have
  • 14:54
  • so many accessories with the Loco right
  • 14:57
  • let's open the blister pack pull the end
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  • open and the Loco gets presented to us
  • 15:02
  • oh and there's the pipet for filling the
  • 15:06
  • uh filling the steam
  • 15:12
  • generator I'll tell you what First Sight
  • 15:16
  • wow that is an amazing
  • 15:18
  • model that is absolutely
  • 15:22
  • stunning there is so much detail on
  • 15:25
  • this I don't know where to start the cab
  • 15:28
  • is just
  • 15:29
  • something
  • 15:31
  • else absolutely wonderful let me lift it
  • 15:34
  • off the packaging now what I'm going to
  • 15:37
  • do for the purposes of this I am going
  • 15:38
  • to separate the tender and Loco just
  • 15:41
  • like
  • 15:43
  • that move back to one side now first
  • 15:47
  • lift I wouldn't say the Loco is
  • 15:49
  • particularly heavy we'll weigh it in a
  • 15:50
  • moment um does feel like it's got a
  • 15:53
  • diecast running board um and a diecast
  • 15:56
  • chassis on there yes I believe it has
  • 15:59
  • um maybe plastic body I don't know I
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  • don't know I don't want to mislead
  • 16:02
  • anyone but we'll weigh the Loco in a
  • 16:04
  • moment so let's start at one end and let
  • 16:08
  • me walk you around there's so many
  • 16:10
  • little features on here I don't know
  • 16:12
  • actually how to hold it so inside the
  • 16:15
  • cab probably one of the best cabs I've
  • 16:19
  • seen hbi do you see the regulator a
  • 16:23
  • separately fitted lever there all the
  • 16:25
  • little dials the pipe work is all
  • 16:27
  • separately fitted and all lifted away
  • 16:30
  • from the back of the Firebox to give it
  • 16:32
  • some sort of depth and dimension the
  • 16:34
  • little levers are Al protruding and just
  • 16:38
  • looking through the window that is
  • 16:40
  • absolutely amazing now as I'm sort of
  • 16:42
  • turning it around on the camera here I
  • 16:44
  • will be go back and take some pictures
  • 16:45
  • and I'll drop those pictures in so you
  • 16:47
  • can see in more detail what I'm talking
  • 16:49
  • about um on the back of the Loco we've
  • 16:52
  • got the two guards either side and you
  • 16:55
  • can see the separately fitted pipe work
  • 16:57
  • down under here for the drains for the
  • 17:00
  • uh injectors and you see this pipe
  • 17:02
  • running
  • 17:03
  • underneath absolutely beautifully
  • 17:06
  • done we got the reversing lever there's
  • 17:09
  • a separate part running down through
  • 17:11
  • here and down the side the separately
  • 17:13
  • fitted pipe work all the way through to
  • 17:14
  • the Smoke Box safety valves looking
  • 17:18
  • absolutely perfect um and then don't
  • 17:20
  • pick out any other the features on here
  • 17:22
  • but this is indeed got some some
  • 17:24
  • printing on the tender as well and it
  • 17:26
  • does look like two separately fitted um
  • 17:29
  • brake
  • 17:29
  • handles got separately fitted handles
  • 17:32
  • down either side and at the far
  • 17:34
  • end yeah what a lovely model right just
  • 17:37
  • brought in the scales so let's put the
  • 17:40
  • Loco on
  • 17:43
  • first coming in at 266 G so not the
  • 17:46
  • heaviest but uh not too bad I don't
  • 17:48
  • suppose and then with the
  • 17:51
  • tender brings it up to 370 G uh so yeah
  • 17:55
  • not not the most heavy Loco but uh
  • 17:57
  • hoping it will have the traction I'm
  • 18:00
  • just interested to bring in the Flying
  • 18:01
  • Scotsman and compare so I just bring in
  • 18:03
  • the steam generator Flying Scotsman
  • 18:06
  • that's coming in at
  • 18:09
  • 309 and the black
  • 18:11
  • five 266 so 40 G difference between the
  • 18:15
  • two so yeah indeed it is a little bit
  • 18:17
  • lighter but then you know to be fair it
  • 18:20
  • is a slightly uh longer Loco The Flying
  • 18:24
  • Scotsman now whilst taking the uh
  • 18:27
  • detailed photographs of this I keep
  • 18:29
  • noticing things on it that uh really are
  • 18:32
  • something quite special so uh apart from
  • 18:34
  • the mechanism we got more pipes fitted
  • 18:38
  • down the side here inside the cab if we
  • 18:41
  • just look up you see the inside of the
  • 18:43
  • cab has been painted cream right the way
  • 18:46
  • down to the windows absolutely perfectly
  • 18:48
  • painted the other thing I just wanted to
  • 18:50
  • talk about is this uh you know coupling
  • 18:53
  • between the tender and the Locos you can
  • 18:54
  • see the tongue here with the uh
  • 18:57
  • connection points and then on the tender
  • 19:01
  • you have the socket and this was a
  • 19:03
  • little ball joint that I was talking
  • 19:05
  • about just on the end here and these two
  • 19:07
  • just push together and therefore you
  • 19:09
  • don't get any sort of unsightly wires
  • 19:11
  • between the two very nice
  • 19:14
  • indeed let's take this over to the
  • 19:16
  • railway and I can get some detailed
  • 19:18
  • shots on there and you can see truly how
  • 19:20
  • spectacular this model is before we get
  • 19:22
  • it moving and I'll tell you a little bit
  • 19:24
  • about the uh black fives although I'm
  • 19:26
  • sure most people watching this will be
  • 19:28
  • fully aware Ware of the Loco and then
  • 19:29
  • we'll bring it back onto the other
  • 19:30
  • layout and try and Link it into the
  • 19:32
  • Bluetooth and uh see what it looks like
  • 19:34
  • with the steam generator running well
  • 19:37
  • I'm going to use hornby's words off the
  • 19:38
  • Box just to uh fill in while we're
  • 19:40
  • looking at the detailed shots of the loo
  • 19:42
  • so the blackf fires were a mixed traffic
  • 19:44
  • locomotive a do anything go anywhere
  • 19:47
  • type designed by stania and introduced
  • 19:50
  • in
  • 19:51
  • 1934 in their early days the locomotives
  • 19:53
  • were weren known as the black sters
  • 19:56
  • because of their black Livery but were
  • 19:58
  • also lat nicknamed black fives known for
  • 20:00
  • a truly staggering number of potential
  • 20:03
  • modifications the black five was a
  • 20:05
  • Workhorse of the LMS and later British
  • 20:07
  • Rail from 1934 to 1951 a total number of
  • 20:12
  • 842 locomotives were ordered by Elms and
  • 20:15
  • constructed by various Builders Elms
  • 20:18
  • crew Darby and horich works Vulcan
  • 20:20
  • Foundry and Armstrong Whitworth number
  • 20:23
  • 4472 6 was one such black five
  • 20:26
  • locomotive built under British Rail
  • 20:28
  • nationalization at crew in
  • 20:30
  • 1949 Lo locomotive was allocated to
  • 20:33
  • kingsmore shed uh for all of its working
  • 20:36
  • life but it spent the first 3 weeks of
  • 20:38
  • existence at Crew North by November 1950
  • 20:42
  • there was still no BR emblem in blazen
  • 20:44
  • on the side of the tender there were new
  • 20:46
  • boilers fitted between 1953 and 1958 a
  • 20:50
  • riveted tender was used with the
  • 20:51
  • locomotive from 1955 until 1961 when a
  • 20:55
  • welded tender was used
  • 20:57
  • instead the there's another interesting
  • 20:59
  • fact on the box which says uh 2 years
  • 21:01
  • into the working life of the Loco it
  • 21:03
  • reached a total mileage of
  • 21:05
  • 96,4 181
  • 21:07
  • Mi the Loco saw 17 years of working
  • 21:11
  • duties and was withdrawn from service
  • 21:16
  • 66 right let's see if we can get this
  • 21:18
  • Loco connected so everything's switched
  • 21:21
  • on I'm going to link
  • 21:25
  • accessory start scan
  • 21:32
  • okay I'm guessing it's that
  • 21:36
  • one just a very quick recap I've gone
  • 21:40
  • onto the the app down the bottom here
  • 21:43
  • I've clicked on this button I've linked
  • 21:45
  • the device when the device is linked
  • 21:47
  • I've then gone into the profile and
  • 21:50
  • sorry onto the control at the top here
  • 21:52
  • where it says manage device I've clicked
  • 21:54
  • on manage
  • 21:55
  • device and then down the bottom here I
  • 21:58
  • I've added in the profile by hitting
  • 22:00
  • browse profile and selecting the black
  • 22:03
  • five from all the profiles uh and just
  • 22:06
  • left it to install so that's now all in
  • 22:08
  • the hopefully is loaded so let's just
  • 22:11
  • push one of the
  • 22:12
  • [Music]
  • 22:15
  • whistles perfect and what a great sound
  • 22:18
  • right so just just move the app out the
  • 22:20
  • way for a
  • 22:21
  • moment cuz I want to add some water so
  • 22:24
  • let me just move the camera back forward
  • 22:26
  • now it says to remove move smoke box
  • 22:30
  • door so oh it's
  • 22:33
  • magnetic that's very good look at that
  • 22:36
  • so when you put the Smoke Box door back
  • 22:39
  • on it's actually held on with magnets I
  • 22:43
  • like that indeed that's good okay so
  • 22:46
  • where did I put my
  • 22:53
  • water all right so I believe it says
  • 22:56
  • it's just to to the left into here and
  • 23:00
  • we need to add 3
  • 23:16
  • mlit I hope I'm putting this in the
  • 23:18
  • right
  • 23:20
  • place right that's 3 ml gone in there
  • 23:25
  • let's pop the Smoke Box door back on
  • 23:30
  • yeah and there's a little locator as
  • 23:31
  • well on there which is pretty good okay
  • 23:34
  • going back to the app let's use function
  • 23:39
  • one which should be the steam
  • 23:42
  • generator give it a tiny bit of time to
  • 23:45
  • start
  • 23:54
  • up no no steam yet got to give it a
  • 23:57
  • little bit more water
  • 24:01
  • well just over 2 hours have passed and
  • 24:03
  • I'm now lost my enthusiasm and I'm
  • 24:06
  • afraid I'm a little bit despondent so
  • 24:08
  • filling the water you put the pipet in
  • 24:12
  • through here and it pushes down into a
  • 24:14
  • reservoir deep inside the Loco like so
  • 24:18
  • you see if I just push this you can see
  • 24:20
  • I'm getting water out so I know there's
  • 24:22
  • water in there
  • 24:25
  • um I've filled it several times I've
  • 24:27
  • emptied it several times s I've checked
  • 24:30
  • reinstalled the uh software onto the
  • 24:34
  • chip making sure that everything's okay
  • 24:38
  • and alas whatever I do absolutely no
  • 24:41
  • steam at
  • 24:42
  • all so I'll just show you if I put
  • 24:48
  • the function on this is Function One the
  • 24:51
  • sound and I mean it's not like I haven't
  • 24:53
  • had the steam generator before I've got
  • 24:55
  • that in the Flying Scotsman and as
  • 24:57
  • you've seen through my video I've
  • 24:58
  • troubleshooted it I've had no problems
  • 25:00
  • with it but this one absolutely nothing
  • 25:03
  • absolutely nothing I say 2 and 1 half
  • 25:05
  • hours I've been out here and yeah I did
  • 25:08
  • just go say to me wife you know this
  • 25:10
  • should be enjoyable and instead of
  • 25:12
  • running it and enjoying the Loco I'm now
  • 25:14
  • trying to for find it so unfortunately
  • 25:17
  • I'm going to cut this review
  • 25:18
  • short um and contact Hornby on Monday
  • 25:22
  • that's all I can do um yeah disappointed
  • 25:27
  • um if anybody's got got any suggestions
  • 25:29
  • I mean I have played with I've looked at
  • 25:31
  • the CV codes there is an onoff function
  • 25:33
  • on function 23 I've tried that um I've
  • 25:36
  • tried emptying the water I've tried free
  • 25:38
  • filling the water I've put two lots of 3
  • 25:40
  • mil in there basically once you get to
  • 25:43
  • the second thre mil it then starts
  • 25:44
  • dripping out the bottom I'm worried
  • 25:46
  • about putting any more in there because
  • 25:48
  • obviously I don't want water floating
  • 25:50
  • around inside the loco that's never
  • 25:52
  • going to be a good thing with all the
  • 25:53
  • electrics in there and um yeah I don't
  • 25:56
  • know what else to try uh positive things
  • 25:59
  • um the lighting you can see here on the
  • 26:02
  • front of it i' hope it's coming out you
  • 26:04
  • see the two lights that have come on
  • 26:06
  • absolutely wonderful and now if I just
  • 26:08
  • go
  • 26:09
  • past to the rear of the Loco and I'll
  • 26:13
  • just Pan the camera around a little bit
  • 26:15
  • if I
  • 26:17
  • can so rear lights out while it's in
  • 26:20
  • forward if I now change the direction
  • 26:23
  • you'll see the rear light comes on so
  • 26:26
  • and the flickering Firebox when it's
  • 26:28
  • moving I mean you can see it it's not
  • 26:30
  • even why it's moving cuz it's a
  • 26:32
  • hopefully it's coming out the flickering
  • 26:33
  • Firebox looks amazing and even to the
  • 26:36
  • extent that you can see up through the
  • 26:38
  • up through the wheel as you would on the
  • 26:40
  • real thing the whole model is absolutely
  • 26:43
  • wonderful it really is it really is
  • 26:45
  • something very
  • 26:47
  • special but uh yeah just uh Little Bits
  • 26:50
  • despondent because yet again I'm you
  • 26:53
  • know trying to fult find a loco um that
  • 26:55
  • I should really be enjoying so as I say
  • 26:57
  • I'm going to cut this this one short
  • 26:58
  • I'll just give you a quick demo of the
  • 27:00
  • sounds so just to get the mo Loco
  • 27:04
  • moving give you some idea of the
  • 27:07
  • motion it's got these fantastic whistles
  • 27:10
  • on
  • 27:12
  • there proper you know really capturing
  • 27:15
  • the
  • 27:19
  • sound as I say everything about this
  • 27:22
  • Loco is absolutely amazing except for
  • 27:24
  • the fact that the primary function of
  • 27:26
  • the steam generator
  • 27:28
  • doesn't work on my one
  • 27:30
  • so
  • 27:40
  • yeah and even on the you know normal on
  • 27:43
  • the functions list we got thon's
  • 27:46
  • breakfast the
  • 27:49
  • blower G whistle they're all on here all
  • 27:53
  • of the normal
  • 27:54
  • functions but uh let me just turn that
  • 27:56
  • sound back off so with that I think I'm
  • 27:59
  • going to leave this one there there's
  • 28:00
  • not much more I can do there's no point
  • 28:02
  • in me filming it running around the
  • 28:03
  • layout without the steam generator on
  • 28:05
  • there so I'll contact horby on Monday
  • 28:07
  • and uh yeah I'll probably end up doing a
  • 28:09
  • follow-up video but anyway um leave this
  • 28:11
  • one there if it's been of Interest
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  • please do give it a thumbs up and as
  • 28:15
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  • 28:18
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  • 28:21
  • thank you every so much for watching and
  • 28:23
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  • 28:27
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