The locos, I'm reasonably familiar with, but I didn't know there were coaches. Until I saw this.
Produced to accompany the firms' whitemetal locomotive from the same line, it's so different from the rest, I wonder if parts were bought in.
Clear plastic, pre-printed sides look a lot like the products of PC Models, who made a range of standard gauge kits with printed sides.
We also have a sheet of black plastic sheet, marked out for cutting, some whitemetal parts for bogies and solebars, etched balcony gates, and Peco wheels.
To be honest, I don't fancy building this, as it's going to be pretty basic, and any attempt to detail will require paint matching, or even repainting, which takes away the point of the printed sides! I suppose in the era this was produced, it would be a significant aid to scratchbuilding, but now, nothing more than an exercise in nostalgia.
That said, poking around in the box has been interesting, which is what this is all about.
If anyone fancies adding this to their collection, £15 quid plus postage and it's yours. If not, I'll get around to popping it on eBay at some point.
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This kit appears to provide a set of parts for the underframe, and it is up to the modeller to effectively scratch-build the body? I believe that the prototype coach sides had horizontal and vertical beading, which does not appear to be represented on these pre-printed sides. (I also wonder about the window sizes.) Probably state-of-the-art for the 1970s? No thanks Phil! ;-)
I did build a couple of these, around 30 years ago, for a friend - who also persuaded me to tackle the same firm’s kit of the loco. To make things a real challenge, the whole ensemble was to 10mm gauge, as at the time I was interested in adapting 2mm finescale standards to give a P4ish take on the narrow gauge (there were a few others doing the same thing, independently and collectively). The coaches were printed in a simplified version of the original ornate livery of the light railway company, and once I’d built up the missing panelling with plasticard, it was ‘just’ a matter of getting out the bow pen to improve, in particular, the complex company insignia…. The underframe parts and etchings (from another couple of kits) were good enough for me to keep to go with the Worsley Works etched sides which became available some years later. I still haven’t got around to that job….
The less said about the Centre Models’ chassis for the loco, the better!
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