Category: Kitbashing

• Comrie Pug (Pt1)

  Whilst I wait for a replacement chassis etch for the Barclay (long story) I’ve decided to make a start on the second NCB loco for Project77. Due to some confusion and overthinking on my part concerning the compensation on the Barclay, I feel that I need to start afresh with this loco and I’m doing…

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  December 13, 2016

  4mm, EM, Kitbashing, NCB, Project 77, Uncategorized

  Conversions, Modelling, NCB, Scottish

• More 2P sub assemblies

  Before work today, I grabbed a couple of hours at the bench and surprised myself with the progress made. Cab splashers applied, firebox and boiler/smokebox fabricated. Whilst these are relatively simple shapes in terms of the Fowler design, I suspect the real challenge will be mounting the sub assemblies squarely in relation to one another.

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  March 26, 2014

  4mm, Kitbashing, Modelling

• Possible new Reid Atlantic kit from 52F

  (Image courtesy of WRHA Archive.) Whilst a number of kits exist for models of the Caledonian and Highland Railways’ larger locomotives, there is nothing similar for the NBR (sorry, I just don’t like the full title!) 🙂 equivalent, WP Reid’s impressive Atlantic Class locomotives. Built in the early 1900s to handle crack East Coast services…

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  February 2, 2014

  4mm, Kitbashing, Modelling, NBR, Uncategorized, Waverley Route