It's railway modelling, but then again it isn't quite. I'm a great fan of Colin T Gifford's photographs so I thought I'd have a go at 'doing a Gifford' on some 7mm models I've been working on. Evening drawing in at a country station. Old hand and new recruit contemplate a wagon that's ended up...
As I have (just about) finished the tank wagon and 16 ton wagon I had a choice of starting an 08 shunter or the brake goods.
Having decided on the 08 shunter I fell at the first hurdle. I folded up the inner frames and tried to solder laminate the strengthening pieces with the resistance...
I bought this during the build of the 13 ton wagon and David assured me it would be much quicker and easier to complete. I didn't find the last one particularly difficult as everything is so accurately etched.
The instructions follow a very similar sequence and would be easy to fall into the...
It's going to be a while before I actually cut the first etch on this model, but I wanted to just leave this here as food for thought.
I collected a box from Mr Carr today. It's an MMP Mk1 RMB (miniature buffet) kit, with the interior detail kit. :thumbs:
I've procured a suitable ring binder...
As a small break from the loco building I decided to switch to building a MMP Glass Truck. For the simple reason it was advertised as a ScaleSeven kit so I was curious to see what you got. Although that said I haven't got a finescale kit available so I wouldn't really know what the difference...