Welcome to a bumper update, packed full of projects across multiple scales and gauges. Now is the time for that cuppa you’ve been promising yourself, sit back and let me meander through this week’s progress…First scale and gauge, 1:76 on 12mm track. Yes, another 00-12 project, but this time squeezing the Hornby B4 chassis inside a EDM Models Townsend Hook 3D print, not a straight forward job! The resin is quite brittle and I don’t like working with 3D prints in this way - but a few snaps and repairs later we have something resembling the prototype. There are still some wheel arches to add and I’ve spaced the replacement dumb buffers to match the forthcoming 00-12 wagons I’m producing. It will be finished in the red brown livery with red lining edged black, hopefully and attractive little engine.There are quite a lot of repaints and custom transfer jobs on my bench at present and good progress on all of these this week. The first trio of projects all centring on Spanish examples, 1:160…
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