My REAL preference would be for a decent LNER mixed traffic loco. Given that Farish's V2 can't usually pull the skin off a rice pudding I would have suggested a V2 except Farish would probably get there first. That takes us to the 2-6-0s. Bachmann reckon the K3 is their poorest seller, despite there being so many of them.
Hornby, on the other hand, seem to be selling plenty of K1s. So could I suggest one of the following-
K1 2-6-0 with the option of using the chassis and much of the CAD for a later K4 (Great Marquess). The K4 needs a different tender, the K1 has the same tender as the B1, which might help a little with CAD costs.
K2 2-6-0 which had two basic variants with different cabs. There isn't one in OO to use for sales comparisons, but that might give an opportunity to make the same model in two scales.
The third suggestion follows on from that and is a B16 4-6-0, which could be one or both of two variations - as built or as rebuilt into B16/2 by Gresley and B16/3 by Thompson. I'm not sure how many differences there were between B16/2 and B16/3 visually, but I think they could be covered in the same tooling with slides.
Just a couple of thoughts.
Les
Hornby, on the other hand, seem to be selling plenty of K1s. So could I suggest one of the following-
K1 2-6-0 with the option of using the chassis and much of the CAD for a later K4 (Great Marquess). The K4 needs a different tender, the K1 has the same tender as the B1, which might help a little with CAD costs.
K2 2-6-0 which had two basic variants with different cabs. There isn't one in OO to use for sales comparisons, but that might give an opportunity to make the same model in two scales.
The third suggestion follows on from that and is a B16 4-6-0, which could be one or both of two variations - as built or as rebuilt into B16/2 by Gresley and B16/3 by Thompson. I'm not sure how many differences there were between B16/2 and B16/3 visually, but I think they could be covered in the same tooling with slides.
Just a couple of thoughts.
Les
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