The recent arrival of my "gargoyle" was the end of a timely anticipation filled wait.
The locomotive is fantastic, dripping with details and looks the part. The details are so plentiful the loco was found to be literally dripping with parts. Like Sam's Trains, my loco had not one but two cab individual access steps come adrift during transportation. I reattached the wayward steps to their correct locations and the beast has now entered service.
Due to the slight blip mentioned I have deducted a star on this occasion.
I am also concerned about the access "covers" on the base of the bogies to protect the driving gears are only held on by delicate fragile clips. This is a bad design and more robustness should be incorporated within the design.
The locomotive is now a regularly rostered unit on my 5 coach regional services.