Announced at noon today...
https://rapidotrains.co.uk/009-kerr-stuart-co-sirdar-long-tank/
Along with a range of wagons to go with them...
https://rapidotrains.co.uk/009-all-purpose-wagons/
Also worth noting - a partnership with Fourdees with several kits in the pipeline to use the chassis:
https://www.fourdees.co.uk/chassis (https://www.fourdees.co.uk/chassis)
You can't please all of the people all of the time!
Quite liking the look of the paint job of their 'Leonardo' (but preferably, without the cane box) I asked Rapido whether this option would be available.the company replied that the cane box is glued in place.and the dome, which is not fitted in this model, is not available as a replacement part.
I'm pretty sertain that the object missing from the top of the boiler on Leonora is the sand box. The dome is there, immediately ahead of the cab, as it is on all the other models.
Of course, if Leonora was to be strictly accurate, it would be running on 6.7mm gauge track, being a 20" gauge machine. Looking at the lining on the front of the tanks, it appears as though the tanks were narrowed.