Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Plastic fantastic


jinty roof
Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker.
I’m a lazy model maker really. When it comes to the little fiddly bits on a locomotive I quickly give up on solder and proceed to superglue.

The Jinty includes various bits of brass that a better man than I, would carefully form and then solder in place. Stuff that, I replace them with bits of microstrip. Far easier and quicker and they look nearly as good.

Mind you the photo makes it look like the rainstrips snake across the cab roof whereas they look straight in real life, honest.

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