BR Preserved King Loco collection

[kevmt]

Many thanks for all the comments. I'm glad you are enjoying using them

I'll have to see what I can do about a Hall cab, as well.

Cheers,
Kevin

[mervyn61]

Just taken King George V on a rake of chocolate and cream Mk1s for a run on South Devon Banks from Plymouth to Newton Abbot.

Lovely model and it drives like a dream. Didn't notice at first, but switching to an external view at higher level and all the inside motion is working and fully animated. Fantastic!

Fantastic sounds as well, especially the exhaust beat while climbing the steep banks at speed.

Very many thanks to Kevin and Matt for all your efforts and hard work in producing these. I am very appreciative.

Mervyn

[conireland]

Hi Kevin,

Spotted the Kings had been released earlier on when browsing the download section of this site, thought I'd give them a go. The model quality is really nice and the sounds sound near enough spot on to me Cheers for releasing them into the community, I'm really enjoying driving them (currently on the GCR pretending to 'test' them as an excuse to thrash 'em to death and hear them erupt into action!)

If the Hall cab could be aliased to the King then that would only make them better...

[boody227]

when you get the king cab in, could you also script it to have the big ejector and small just like the rsc king?
BTW thanks its sweet

[Kariban]

Stunning job, the sounds match the model quality too.

Perhaps the headout view can be the GWR side when the aliased cab turns up

[mjoliver1]

I've been looking forward to these. A thank you in advance of a successful download, but right now the file seems corrupt, only presenting a 90Kb .zip.
Has anyone else experienced this?

Mike

[VernonDozier]

Just took these for a spin.



Speechless.

I'd pay top dollar for these.

[mjoliver1]

Finally got the proper file downloaded.

These Kings are absolutely superb! And, Matt's sounds are exceptional.

Thank you.


Mike

[emrhd01]

Many thanks for all the comments. I'm glad you are enjoying using them

I'll have to see what I can do about a Hall cab, as well.

Cheers,
Kevin

Thanks Kev, that would be very much appreciated by a lot of us on a "smaller" budget.

[kevmt]

Thanks once again for the comments.

I will do a patch for both the Hall and the King cabs, but I don't think I will be able to do these until tomorrow.

Cheers,
Kevin

[RSderek]

Good work Kev!

regards

Derek

[emrhd01]

Thanks once again for the comments.

I will do a patch for both the Hall and the King cabs, but I don't think I will be able to do these until tomorrow.

Cheers,
Kevin

That's really great news Kev, I'm more than happy to wait if the arms painful.

I'm really enjoying driving the Kings just as they are now, the Cab patch will be just icing on the cake for me.

Thanks once again for these wonderful models and for generously sharing your efforts with us.

[Inthernet]

Just took King Edward II on a spin up WCML North to see how fast/powerful it is, with a rake of 12x RW3 default Mk2 carriages. I have lots observations! Please take my following comments as simply observations, not criticism.

1. Edward I and II have different chimneys - the former seems to have the double kychlap. Are the game physics between these two trains still the same (not that it really matters, but just curious).

2. Both train whistles are barely audible.

3. Brake application and release rates are really high - same goes for the Ivatt!

4. I see that you have a different design philosophy to Kuju (MSTS) and RSC, with the use of an obvious cap in steam generation rate (same goes for the Ivatt).

5. Steam usage rate/reverser relationship changes greatly when accelerating past 40mph, resulting in me adding forward reverser to balance usage/production.

6. Steam sounds gets invaded by a "claketty-clack" noise past 60mph. I do not know if this is intentional.

7. Engine seems to have a ton of power at low speed, but hampered by wheelslip. Yet to test this on the 1:40 gradient at Cajun Pass.

8. At above 40mph, the RSC Tornado has far more power.

9. I have not looked at the simulation files. The engine gets to 80mph with ease, but needs some downhill help to achieve a stable speed of approx 90mph max.

10. I drove from Carlisle, 100% throttle most of the way (save for speed limits), making short stops at Lockerbie, Carstairs and Motherwell. My tender ran dry and I parked the train at a siding just outside Motherwell with 0.5 water remaining. The water lasted 90 miles. Any sensible preservationist would refill at Carstairs!

11. A pity about the lack of a proper cab - but I don't spend much time in cab view anyway! The lack of AWS is very welcome!

12. The pack seems to have come with A TON of extra assets! Mk1 and Mk2 carriages of different colours and lots of freight cars. They seem to come with the FP prefix. Thanks for all that - I hope to finally hook up the Tornado with non-glitching Mk1 carriages!

Edit: 13. How on earth did I forget that the sounds below 50mph is absolutely jaw-dropping! I have no idea how a real King sounds like but the sounds in this packinge is very convincing and immersive.
All in all, this train is a looker! She is also a great joy to drive and I thoroughly enjoyed putting her through the paces.

[mjoliver1]

Just took King Edward II on a spin up WCML North to see how fast/powerful it is, with a rake of 12x RW3 default Mk2 carriages. I have lots observations! Please take my following comments as simply observations, not criticism.


2. Both train whistles are barely audible.

I think that may be to do with your audio system because I nearly jumped out of my seat when I first hit the 'B' and the 'space' bar.

Mike

[Acorncomputer]

Brilliant Kevin

Thanks very much