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New Hornby Teak Gresleys: Can Hornby Improve on Perfection? - Unboxing and Review

Jennifer E. Kirk Model Railways

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20 Comments

@Chrispy1976 2 years ago

I just took delivery of a handful of these beauties, pricey but well worth it, recently treated myself to a 10000 hush-hush and these will look absolutely splendid behind her! Thank you for the review, i'm fashionably late by three years, but these coaches seem timeless, i'd agree, perfect. 👍

@larryrogers7216 6 years ago

Wow, can you just imagine the cost and skill required to build the full scale coaches?

@nigeljohnson8022 6 years ago

The grain effect is good, but I find that I get better results using a gloss yellow undercoat, then proper teak scrumble paint over the top, applying it with a stiff stippling brush and almost dry, but the whole shape of the coach lets it down massively. If you look from the end of the coach, Gresley teaks should have a very distinctive tumblehome in the bottom panelling, these don't. They are almost slab sided like a Hawksworth GWR coach. I have now replaced all of my Hornby teaks with brass sided overlays. I model exact rakes of trains and find that Hornbys range very limited compared to the likes of Comet or D&S brass coaches. Good review though, thank you for sharing.

@flippop101 6 years ago

This is quality YouTube. Thank you!

@film49uk 6 years ago

Good comparison of the different releases of this coach ...

@lesliedickinson198 6 years ago

A great review Jenny and what a supremely elegant looking coach that invokes an age gone by.

@chrismax18 6 years ago

Another great review Jenny! I love the look of the teak coaches so stunning! Well done hornby

@paredding 6 years ago

And the Teak Thompsons are also stunning Jenny

@MyChaz2 6 years ago

Excellent coach. Great review. Thanks

@l1a146 6 years ago

Great review as always Thank you Jenny.
I had plenty of the original run of teaks and as you say, they were superb.
Subsequent batches started to look like one big slab of Ikea knotty pine. 😔
It's so good to see that with the latest versions, they've gone back to whatever they were doing before and they look fabulous.
A good example of a company listening to its customers.
Well done Hornby.

@trainman07011 6 years ago

Got a set of the newest run, also very happy!

@hamshackleton 6 years ago

TTS chip in the A4, though - the 'throttle' sound is SO notchy!

@ewoodrailway 6 years ago

Lots of detail, looks so much better

@martinpattison5110 6 years ago

They are lovely models and the teak effect is now the best I have ever seen. I can see a lot of the older ones going for sale on eBay. Nice review. martin (Dhaka, Bangladesh)

@theovanstaden5766 6 years ago

Great video Jenny!

@24th1879 6 years ago

Another great review, totally agree with everything you say. I was looking at these in Kernow Model Rail.. very impressed..

@dathpo 2 years ago

Thanks for the review. Even though I already own a few. I appreciate your opinion and observations that I may not have noticed. and just taken for granted. such and the wood grain and the lettering. It gives me a better enjoyment for the cars. I'm from Ohio, US