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==Models== One of the first two [[Hornby Dublo]] locomotive models produced, in 1938, was an A4.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hornby.com/locomotives-89/r2688/product.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201144701/https://www.hornby.com/locomotives-89/r2688/product.html |archivedate=1 February 2010|title= LNER 4-6-2 'Sir Nigel Gresley' Class A4|website=[[Hornby Railways]] }}</ref> In 1999 a 'Super Detail' Hornby A4 was released,{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} later complemented by a budget 'Railroad' model{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}<!--date obtained from a Hornby service sheet PDF (https://static.hornby.com/files/ss-274-245.pdf) !!--> [[Hornby Railways|Hornby]] also produced an 'OO'-scale [[live steam]] version in September 2003, that used an electrically heated boiler to produce steam β not previously possible in such a small model. Trix produced an 'OO' scale model A4 from 1970; it was re-branded as a Liliput model in 1974 and survives to this day in modified form as a Bachmann model β Kader, Bachmann's parent company, had bought Liliput in 1993.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ramsay |first1=John |last2=Hammond |first2=Pat |editor-last=King |editor-first=John |title=Ramsay's British Model Trains Catalogue |edition=3rd |year=2002 |orig-year=1998 |publisher=Swapmeet Publications |location=Felixstowe |isbn=0-9528352-7-4 |pages=298, 302, 33 }}</ref> In September 2004, Hornby unveiled retooled [[OO gauge]] models of the A4 in LNER blue, LNER black and BR green.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Hornby's new A4 and Gresley coaches unveiled at the NRM|magazine=British Railway Modelling|page=36|issue=8|volume=12|date=November 2004|location=Bourne|publisher=Warners Group Publications|issn=0968-0764|oclc=1135061879}}</ref> During the 1980s, [[Minitrix]] produced [[British N gauge]] models of ''Mallard'', both as 4468 in LNER blue and 60022 in BR green, and 4498 ''Sir Nigel Gresley'' in LNER blue. From the 1990s, [[Graham Farish]] produced British N gauge models of the A4. In 2012, [[Dapol]] introduced a British N gauge model of 60017 ''Silver Fox'' in BR green.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Dapol 'A4' 4-6-2|first=Ben|last=Jones|magazine=[[Model Rail]]|pages=18β21|issue=169|date=May 2012|location=Peterborough|publisher=Bauer|issn=1369-5118|oclc=173324502}}</ref>
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