richard carr
Western Thunderer
I bought this kit when it was first launched and it has therefore sat on my shelf for about 3 years.
I thought it was time to have a go at it, I think Claytons look different in a nice way but unfortunately they had all been withdrawn a few years before my main modelling period of 1981, but its my railway and this one has somehow survived !
The it follows the usual JLTRT philosophy lots of exquisite big pieces of resin for the body, chassis and bogies. As usual these are just gorgeous, nobody casts resin better than JLTRT.
Sadly that often isn't true of their detail castings made from white metal or brass, some of these in the 40 and 37 kits I have had have been dreadful and new ones have had to be supplied by them. They always do I just don't understand why they send out such poor ones in the first place.
This time though the castings are good and I haven't found any that need to be binned yet. The other annoying problem is missing parts, and this time there are 3 brake cylinders missing, but everything else seems to be there.
Here are some pictures, some of the castings to start.
Seats, sand boxes, dampers and the 1 brake cylinder.
Various details here, the sand pipes, top row second from right are one the best castings I have seen from JLTRT.
Looking at everything it should go together fairly easily and quickly. The instructions state that the only tricky bit is getting the cab and the body all level and square, I would agree with that. I have nice offcut of kitchen table top granite to put that together on.
For once the first thing to do is to put the cab details together as the interior isn't going to be that easy to access once the cab has been built.
Here are some of the bits
The 2 cab ends with the cab controls added.
The cab sides. These are now all going to be painted, usually one of the last things I do.
I thought it was time to have a go at it, I think Claytons look different in a nice way but unfortunately they had all been withdrawn a few years before my main modelling period of 1981, but its my railway and this one has somehow survived !
The it follows the usual JLTRT philosophy lots of exquisite big pieces of resin for the body, chassis and bogies. As usual these are just gorgeous, nobody casts resin better than JLTRT.
Sadly that often isn't true of their detail castings made from white metal or brass, some of these in the 40 and 37 kits I have had have been dreadful and new ones have had to be supplied by them. They always do I just don't understand why they send out such poor ones in the first place.
This time though the castings are good and I haven't found any that need to be binned yet. The other annoying problem is missing parts, and this time there are 3 brake cylinders missing, but everything else seems to be there.
Here are some pictures, some of the castings to start.
Seats, sand boxes, dampers and the 1 brake cylinder.
Various details here, the sand pipes, top row second from right are one the best castings I have seen from JLTRT.
Looking at everything it should go together fairly easily and quickly. The instructions state that the only tricky bit is getting the cab and the body all level and square, I would agree with that. I have nice offcut of kitchen table top granite to put that together on.
For once the first thing to do is to put the cab details together as the interior isn't going to be that easy to access once the cab has been built.
Here are some of the bits
The 2 cab ends with the cab controls added.
The cab sides. These are now all going to be painted, usually one of the last things I do.
