When talking about military service, I can’t believe i said I took part in the “Tampa Bay” crisis! I meant the “Tampa” crisis. I know, because I was there… 😳

Sorry I missed the live show guys. I am in a place called Snake Valley, near Ballarat in Victoria.

Great stream guys, sorry I had to miss it.

hi mikey i was RCT spent some time sat outside REME lines waiting for sevices ect lol

Sorry Mike, I shut down too soon. See you tomorrow

It was mentioned that locomotive kits were made as ' free moving ' this would have been with a powered tender. The locomotive would have needed weight in it for stability.

In the 60s ' before the summer of '65, we used to see a Deltic prototype pulling test trains in the direction of Liverpool Lime Street presumably from Newton le Willows, ( English Electric). Very impressive. The livery of blue with the Rugby League type shirt motifs on the front - maybe the chief engineer was a RL fan.

I enjoyed this, nice to see someone else with interest in both military scale modelling and railway modelling. I'm definitely up for more videos like this, especially to see how someone with your modelling chops deals with some of the slightly less detailed kits we often see in the model railway world. Both the kits themselves and the techniques used to build, paint and weather them often seem a way behind what I see at IPMS shows.

Very interesting, and the best part Made in Britain! The only Dapol I own is a Cyberman from their Dr Who days

Thank you sir. I rarely love a diesel but it is a Deltic! Say no more. Best wishes and appreciation for your efforts. P.S. Thank God for miracles - a rescued tooling. So small but so appreciated. P. P. S. I am now a subscriber. I am sure I will enjoy your future efforts.

Very easy to fit to a Lima Deltic chassis.

Gifts are always nice. especially if they are within the hobbies community... Lovely presented video on a vehicle I never really knew existed, generally I think of WW1 as men, horses, tiny trains, that Fokker and mud! Shows my ignorance of the subject. ICM look as if they are a decent model making company, nice set of runners and a lovely clear and precise instruction leaflet that I can only dream of using. All these short run resin kits and card models which I build, you need a brain swop to the people who designed them in the first place to work out what the hell is going on!!! Perhaps I should leave that world behind and come back to something as simple as this, or maybe I'm just a glutton for punishment!? A history vid from yourself on this vee-hickle would be welcome

Well now you have made a start, I guess I need to crack on with my A.A Stalwart... procured some missing parts from Accurate Armour over the Christmas period which was nice of them to help, but it all just sits in the box taunting me . Lovely little hints and tips there, quite a few things I never knew... I shall take a different look at nail varnish now.

is the commentary speeded up, really hard to follow (yes i know there are subtitles)

Hi Bearded Veteran! I have positives and a negative to say. First the positives, I really like your channel I saw you streaming one day a few weeks ago and used that to sub to your channel. I like your videos please keep them coming now a negative, I'm sorry about this but why do you use those emoji characters in your videos? I honestly don't feel it needs it and it makes it look like something kids would watch. Please don't be too upset by this, I just thought you should know and I watch anyway, but yes the little characters really don't belong, sorry

You missed highlighting the most important part of the description card. The "MADE IN ENGLAND"!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Reminding us of happy days, when we actually made stuff! 😢 Cheers.

I have built this kit and a few others.Been to Dapol as well and bought a loco and some wagons.

i hope the build is the old standard not how they build stuff today!

The four wheel wagons were 2/- (10p). I cannot recall what the larger ones were, some maybe 7/6. Back in the early 1970s I compromised on 18mm gauge EM...not exactly Protofour but near enough for me.

nice one nik great kit have fun with it mike

Wow. Well done Nic and well Mike. What a pair of fantastic gents you both are. I am sure that you will do a great build and review of it.

That is fantastic and should make for a wonderful build.

I wasn't aware they thought they'd lost the Deltic forever. However I know that at one time they thought they'd lost the JCB/Lowmac kit. Back in the 90s, there was a major fire at the Dapol factories and offices at Winsford. After the fire there was no sign of the tooling for the kit and it was assumed that it had been lost in the fire - until Dapol sent the tooling for one of the other kits away to be repaired and the repairer told them "By the way, we've got one of your other tools here - do you want it back?" - whilst the tooling had not been lost in the fire, the records saying they had sent it away for repair had!

Well done Mikey.

Nik is an absolute legend. And he's got a hell of a sense of humour too. I'm sure you'll do it justice Mikey!

If anyone deserves that kit its you my friend well done 👍

BLIMEY mate! That is a stunning piece of kit!! "Mystery Box Nik" is the CrazyLocha of the UK. Enjoy the build(s) Mike 🙂 See you later in the week for the Whippet group build. Be seeing you

Needs some kitmaster mk1 coaches to go with it. I made a whole train to go with the Kitmaster deltic (which was powered by an old triang-hornby class 37 bogie) all suitably weighted down with old lead flashing from recently demolished slum clearance houses. Ah...the good ol' days lol.

Oh very nice! He’s a very generous fella. I think this is perfect for you as in my head you’re the WW1 modelling Subject Matter Expert 👍🏼 Look after yourself mate. Ian

flabbergasted😂

Nik is a true gent

Excellent to see still available. I have two my dad made circa 1966, he motorized both with Triang bogies, had many hours of use in my younger/ teenage days. They still work, had to remagnitise the field magnets to bring them back to life, works great on radius 1 curves too. I will eventually convert to DCC!

The BTF video is also interesting. Now this is where I might get sidetracked! Was this grandnational Day? Loads of Excursion coaches but interestingly there was a Horsebox at the end of the passing service.....Now production real Deltics where named after Race Horses. Now say if Meld was in the box do we have 2 Deltics in that shot? Just a Thought!

Nice topic and fun to see that Dapol revived these kits. About the issues stated around 3:10, it is probably not wrong to add that H0 is also by far the most dominant model railway scale, not only in North America, but in the remaining parts of Europe... both on the continent and in Scandinavia. In Australia as well, there are many avid model railway aficionados that run H0 scale models, but of course there are also those there who are fans of 00 scale. If one look to Europe in general, it is pretty much only in the UK and Ireland that 00 scale is common. Then there are anomalies also within Europe... the Irish run broad gauge in 00 scale, while the Finns, Portuguese, Spaniards, and the Baltic countries run different kind of broad gauges in H0... even though most of the scale models (regardless of real-life width between rails) are adapted to tracks with 16.5 mm gauge. Furthermore, as someone explained earlier, the general reason for the creation of 00 scale is due to the smaller British loading gauge. In the remainder of Europe, and in North America, modelling in H0 scale was not an issue. Similarly, within the model railway community (primarily) one speaks of scale and gauge as one and the same concept, while e.g. model car collectors usually only mention the actual numeric scale like 1:43. 1:64, 1:87 and so on and so forth. For the model railways, this gets a little incomprehensible sometimes, e.g. when narrow gauge comes into question, but one normally understand what applies given the context. Yet another amusing factoid is that in Europe in general the scales are originally derived from 1 scale (which was the smallest of the scales standardized by the German firm Gebrüder Bing around 1890) and then came 0 scale (in most of Europe it’s called nil, null, noll, nula etc.) which in the UK is 1:43.5, in the rest of Europe 1:45 and in North America 1:48. When H0 (or half nil) followed, it was derived from the British 0 scale. Scales and gauges within the model railway world are otherwise a jungle, which become evident if one look at some other anomalies. E.g. Japanese H0 scale is 1:80, British N scale is 1:148 while the same scale in the rest of Europe and North America is 1:160 and in Japan it’s 1:150… but as a Swedish saying goes - why do something the easy way when it can be done by more difficult means instead… 🙃

I had one of the original Kitmaster Deltics, back in the 60s. It looked good and ran freely. The whole range of models were good, so well done Dapol for re-issuing them.

Why describe a model of the prototype Deltic as a Class 55. There were many modifications between the prototype and the 22 production examples. Sure it inspired the Class 55 but was very very different.

The other "lost" kit was the JCB which was at a toolmaker and turned up unexpectedly. The kit is the prototype Deltic which differs from the production version, especially the bodyside strakes. It is briefly shown that the glazing is not included but South East Finecast (?) did a moulding which can be found occasionally on ebay as old stock. When Dapol were at Llangollen (with their Dr Who Experience) you used to able to walk round the moulding shop seeing these kits being produced. The wagons used to have Dublo type couplings which were no use with Triang tension lock, etc. Kitmaster also produced a TT range but IIRC the mould tools were left to go rusty/unusable and were scrapped before Dapol appeared on the scene.

Interesting review, however, your use of F off in the video really degrades the presentation. Your ability to communicate more effectively will improve by avoiding the use of profanity . Like it or not we set an example for those around us especially young adults and children. I realize during a time of stress we may let one slip, however always remember who your audience is. A bit of advice from a fellow vet.

Dapol should be congratulated for producing this range of kits! I have found them to be a great source of parts for scratch building the more obscure locomotive prototypes and quite a few of the locos running on my layout can trace their componants back to Kitmaster/Airfoix/Dapol kits.

What a cracking video i love the WW1 tanks and have built 3 by emhar in 1.35 scale one was a whippet which turned nicely anything stay safe and happy modelling everyone 👍

I notice the snips managed to land a bite on your finger. They are very aggressive things, aren't they. Always biting when they get the chance, just like brambles, stinging nettles and Triffids. And roses. And holly. And Chihuahuas.

I didn't realise Dapol had reintroduced the old Kitmaster brand. Talk about memory lane. I have a 4mm station diorama in the spare room. At present it's got an Airfix/Kitmaster City of Truro, plus two of their Southern Schools and a Pug. In addition there are a couple of old K's white metal coaches - an LBSC brake and a 6 wheel GW siphon - plus some revamped classic Triang clerestories. Meanwhile packed away I've got a set of Kitmaster BR coaches, a set of Peco 'wonderful wagons' plus assorted Hornby Dublo carriages and wagons none of which I ever had as a kid. Old items can run happily alongside newer stock especially if you tweak them a bit. And they can be picked up for bargain prices because people mistakenly think of them as junk and they're not!

In all my five decades of doing model trains and reading about model trains in Britain, this is the first time this American has heard Dapol pronounced. With our English language offering absolutely nothing in its written form which tells what to do with vowel sounds, and that I was raised in the US southeast, I had imagined Dapol pronounced like 'day-pole'. If there were kits like this for US locomotives I might build a few. Would definitely want crew figures for the cab.

American OO scale had a wider gauge track, about three-quarters of an inch. American OO scale had its biggest following in the late 1930s - early 1940s but was around in the late 1940s - early 1950s. Lionel first made OO scale trains in 1938 with a 3rd rail in the center of the track, like 3 rail O gauge. Lionel later made 2 rail OO scale trains. There were also OO scale trains with an outside 3rd rail. Leonard Williams has You Tube videos of old trains in various scales & gauges. Leonard has a train table with an HO gauge track running next to an American OO gauge track and you can note the differences in the gauge and scale of the trains.

The various dapol kit wagons are quite serviceable as moving models, they come with metal wheels. The only thing needed is couplings (the "horn hooks" they come with are basically useless), but that is no bother if like me you were going to replace the Hornby/Bachmann couplings anyway. I have a number of the 16 ton mineral, 20 ton oil tank, cement, cattle and brake vans. Not as good as the Parkside kits, but they can look decent when well painted and weathered, and they run quite well.

The 08 kits are very hard to come by i picked one up for £12 not long ago i see them reaching £50 fairly often pre built now

Well apart from the colour film of Deltic. I really did not get anything out of this video.... I did make one of these Deltic kits some years ago, but sadly it got broken! It was difficult to make it fit together, and the flush glaze windows were rubbish. I was glad when I managed to get the RTR one from Bachmann!

I had the Esso tank wagon - which could be used on a layout. And regret not picking up the BR mogul kit I saw at a flea market two years ago. (And I also regret not buying the pristine, with all its accessories and carrying case Bolex movie camera for peanuts from the same market!)

I took the chance with one of these & made just the body. It fitted very well over a Lima/Hornby Railroad Deltic chassis and mine runs like a dream.

I’m incredibly weird and still have the paper note that came with the kit explaining how the mould was ‘destroyed’ pinned to a notice board. It’s a fun reminder to me that there is no specific way to build a kit, it’s all up to the maker and how they want to do it.