I mean the figures look interesting, as do some of the locos, but the coaches, wagons and building look like they've been in the proximity of an explosion in a clock factory.
Agree whoelehartedly. This has a very 'dip it i nglue and roll around in the gears and cogs bin and call it steampunk' look, which I find dishearteningly tacky given trains are a deeply important part of the period. Even some of the locos themselves just.... look like ther'es unneeded greebling hither and yon for the sake of just adding detail.
That said? A couple look like promising armored trains, or bashed together post-post-apocolyptic 'having started to rebuild society' trains that got cobbled together from parts. However you couldn't PAY me to take those buildings, and i'd probably grab one of my more weighty walking sticks if you tried to get me to use that dreadful rolling stock.
We have a Mikado running about an hourish from here and.... she's a fine lady indeed with a long working life carrying frieght, passenger, and coal traffic. She's steam enough for me.
Just get some right proper period pullman-esque cars rather than the modern cabins it's pulling, and there ya go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocSjA4YmJwwTell me that ain't a fine train. Go on. I know there are many better, but she's a looker.
