7mmMick
Western Thunderer
Well it’s been an age this I posted anything meaningful on WT, a very busy back end of 21 with the day job meant limited time at the bench so every spare moment was put to cracking on with modelling which meant no time for taking progress shots I’m afraid.
So to the thread title; I’m sweeping up what has been on the bench and what’s on the bench now.
4037 South Wales Borderers - A JLTRT Castle and Collett tender (Ex Malcolm Mitchell kits)
5999 Wollaton Hall - A JLTRT Hall and Collett Tender
A couple of reference pictures lifted from Flickr
So where we’re up to right now is 4037 is complete and has gone to @warren haywood for paint and 5999 is on the bench and I’m going to attempt to give more of a blow by blow account. First some shots of the completed Castle. Being an original Mitchell kit everything comes in the box so you have the option to build as Mr Mitchell intended, which is the road I took. The instructions were dated to say the least, with some pages missing, luckily @Dan Randall and Peter Sylvester were a great help with pictures of their model builds
Unfortunately the customer didn’t want working inside motion and I was unable to get my hands on an SDK for either loco so it’s pretty much an out of the box build with a few additions here and there. Hopefully an update to follow soonish on 5999,
Cheers
Mick
So to the thread title; I’m sweeping up what has been on the bench and what’s on the bench now.
4037 South Wales Borderers - A JLTRT Castle and Collett tender (Ex Malcolm Mitchell kits)
5999 Wollaton Hall - A JLTRT Hall and Collett Tender
A couple of reference pictures lifted from Flickr
So where we’re up to right now is 4037 is complete and has gone to @warren haywood for paint and 5999 is on the bench and I’m going to attempt to give more of a blow by blow account. First some shots of the completed Castle. Being an original Mitchell kit everything comes in the box so you have the option to build as Mr Mitchell intended, which is the road I took. The instructions were dated to say the least, with some pages missing, luckily @Dan Randall and Peter Sylvester were a great help with pictures of their model builds
Unfortunately the customer didn’t want working inside motion and I was unable to get my hands on an SDK for either loco so it’s pretty much an out of the box build with a few additions here and there. Hopefully an update to follow soonish on 5999,
Cheers
Mick