BR Class 50 - Stor logotyp med grått tak och orange cantrail - 50021 'Rodney' - DCC Sound Fitted

I don't have any preivous manufacturer 50s so can't compare, but Accurascale's is up to their usual very high standard. Two things made me choose to drop a star - firstly there's an issue with the multi-unit cables and paint - they have supplied replacements but these aren't painted particularly well. An easy fix, but it will mean having to buy some orange paint. The second thing, is the name plates. Including both Rodney and Dave plates is brilliant - but the Dave plates would have been better being the same size as the Rodney ones. If you want to use them, you have to clean off the printed ones first.

The Loco body was relatively easy to remove in order to add a crew. Unfortunately, had to remove the cab which is not for the faint hearted. Once removed crew added and a bit of a struggle to get the cab back in. Body then fit perfectly. Front end was detailed using the multitude of parts provided. Sound is superb but the sound sheet could be better in indicating which are one off sounds or sounds that can are constantly on or off. Shunting is superb and top speed is prototypical of the loco. A number of lighting functions - extremely pleased

I've never used DCC before. This model is my first DCC one and it's light years ahead of anything had imagined. Amazing. The packaging was good although one or two tiny bits had come loose and I had to stick them back on.

Absolutely fantastic locomotive! Brilliant sound, brilliant detail, just awesome. What more can I say

Rodney is my 14th Accurascale model. As with all my others it is superb. The sounds on it are brilliant I would recommend Accurascale models to any modeller

Grea odel in terms of detail, realism and mechanism.The sound is particularly good. Not 5 stars unfortunately due to small components - buffers, jumper cable and steps falling off and not fixed securely.

Having taking the plunge and went for accurascale class 50 the details are amazing and sounds as well Bachmann, Heljan, and Dapol are left behind and they should take a leaf out of accurascale’s book. Love the instruments dial that lights up, the locomotive is very powerful one of the best I have seen. But on a negative point they are very fragile but I can understand with so many separate parts. The buffers falls out very easily and have had to glue parts that fell off back on even with careful handling, but overall despite the negative points it is a brilliant loco. Also have bought other accurascale class 55 and colas 37 well worth the money

Excellent product from Accurascale, runs perfectly straight from the box, and with no loose parts.

Rodney...as it reminded me of only fools and horses. That and the impressive reviews and knowing your going to get a high quality model. It was disappointing to have parts loose and one of the steps missing but the team at Accurascale have been great to resolve these issues. That aside, the sounds and running performance are first class.

A big improvement on the existing model in the market place especically the front and the side grilles. Only negative was the colour of the ETH fixings on the front and the fact that one ETH scoket had come off. I understand both are being addressed in the next run.