Those lever frames would still be useful today.
One of the earliest 08 diesel kits too.
All this speaks of a time before RTR models, when people had to make pretty much everything, but there were stores where you could go in, and buy all those bits. My guess is that some of them weren't as good as we remember them to be, but it didn't matter. Standards in the hobby were lower, but were modellers happier? (Probably not. I bet they still moaned about everything).
Sadly, there's no date on the catalogue. I'd guess early 1950s, and would love a time machine to go and take a look.
Every time I open an old W&H catalogue I'm transported back to what feels like a golden time - then I look at old magazines and see how low the general standard of modelling was.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff. I seem to remember Iain Rice speaking quite highly of the Hambling's wheels in a series of articles in the old MAP Model Railways magazine, though they did need a press tool to assemble them.
ReplyDeleteThat 350hp Shunter looks good, too. I've got an old Kitmaster plastic one (actually in Nabisco packaging, so a promotion of some sort) which is pretty old, but I doubt it's as old as the Hambling's one!