Finally completed
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 9:49 pm
With another house move on the horizon, the shed is about to be packed up and moved again. I am spending my last few weeks in it finishing off kits that I had started and given up on.
I have three methods of kit building.
A) Start to finish as quick as is possible with nothing standing in the way.
B) Plod along slowly, doing a bit at a time.
C) Start, give up, put away for another year.
These two were both category C kits.
First we have an IP well wagon, I was looking forwards to building this one but it proved a complete pig to built and keep in once piece. It was acquired second hand but upstarted.
The design does not lend itself to strength and it has been repaired and re glued using various adhesives several times. To be honest I don't like the look of it very much, I think it is too wide for 32mm, it may look better with wider bogies on it. Any way it is finished, painted and weathered.
The next one is a Brandbright tipper. I thought this would be a nice kit to built but again the effort needed far outweighed the result. Again it was secondhand and not started. It is a mixed metal kit, brass and whitemetal. I had a few problems getting the brass etched tub sides to fit with the cast whitemetal ends without leaving huge gaps.
It builds into a nice solid model and I know it will run well. However I can't help but think I could have built a dozen Binnie skips in the time it took me to build it.
I have three methods of kit building.
A) Start to finish as quick as is possible with nothing standing in the way.
B) Plod along slowly, doing a bit at a time.
C) Start, give up, put away for another year.
These two were both category C kits.
First we have an IP well wagon, I was looking forwards to building this one but it proved a complete pig to built and keep in once piece. It was acquired second hand but upstarted.
The design does not lend itself to strength and it has been repaired and re glued using various adhesives several times. To be honest I don't like the look of it very much, I think it is too wide for 32mm, it may look better with wider bogies on it. Any way it is finished, painted and weathered.
The next one is a Brandbright tipper. I thought this would be a nice kit to built but again the effort needed far outweighed the result. Again it was secondhand and not started. It is a mixed metal kit, brass and whitemetal. I had a few problems getting the brass etched tub sides to fit with the cast whitemetal ends without leaving huge gaps.
It builds into a nice solid model and I know it will run well. However I can't help but think I could have built a dozen Binnie skips in the time it took me to build it.