Well I am generally pretty useless at blogging my builds, but an interesting model so will give it a go.
Never considered one of these, but found this in a sale for £70 so couldn't resist. The price jumped up the next day, so I suspect it may have been a mistake. Had a nervous moment as despite and English address and phone number for the shop, the receipt and shipping note/address were all in French. However, within a week and with very reasonable postage, it was waiting for me with the neighbours.
Had a full day off yesterday so made some good progress. I don't think I have ever made a Trumpeter model before, and have to say the cleanup required is considerable. Flash not too bad but considerable mould lines and injection marks/holes. Thankfully the majority of the latter are in relatively unseen places, but you are in for a hell of a job if you insist on filling all of them. Engineering generally pretty good, some parts literally 'snap' into place, while a few others are a bit ambiguous with their fit.
The very large box:
No sprue pics, but there are a lot of them. Some of the biggest pieces of plastic I have ever worked with.
First couple of steps:
Adding some tank things and support structures. These support structures are fairly lose fitting. Whilst there are locator slots at the top, there is nothing at the bottom, fo quite a job to make sure they are square/parallel. may make a job of fitting the boiler on all the contact points later on. In hindsight, should have made the boiler first and used it as a jig.
This is the size of the basic engine WITHOUT the coal tender.
The cab is pretty basic, so although you will see next to nothing, decided to try and bling it up a little. Fairly fictional so far. Have ordered PE as well so will see what comes with that. A little surgery to have an open fire place as the fireman is shovelling. Some extra taps/valves added as well from what I am fairly sure are spares in the kit. That might come round to bite me later.
With some figs for scale.
Never considered one of these, but found this in a sale for £70 so couldn't resist. The price jumped up the next day, so I suspect it may have been a mistake. Had a nervous moment as despite and English address and phone number for the shop, the receipt and shipping note/address were all in French. However, within a week and with very reasonable postage, it was waiting for me with the neighbours.
Had a full day off yesterday so made some good progress. I don't think I have ever made a Trumpeter model before, and have to say the cleanup required is considerable. Flash not too bad but considerable mould lines and injection marks/holes. Thankfully the majority of the latter are in relatively unseen places, but you are in for a hell of a job if you insist on filling all of them. Engineering generally pretty good, some parts literally 'snap' into place, while a few others are a bit ambiguous with their fit.
The very large box:
No sprue pics, but there are a lot of them. Some of the biggest pieces of plastic I have ever worked with.
First couple of steps:
Adding some tank things and support structures. These support structures are fairly lose fitting. Whilst there are locator slots at the top, there is nothing at the bottom, fo quite a job to make sure they are square/parallel. may make a job of fitting the boiler on all the contact points later on. In hindsight, should have made the boiler first and used it as a jig.
This is the size of the basic engine WITHOUT the coal tender.
The cab is pretty basic, so although you will see next to nothing, decided to try and bling it up a little. Fairly fictional so far. Have ordered PE as well so will see what comes with that. A little surgery to have an open fire place as the fireman is shovelling. Some extra taps/valves added as well from what I am fairly sure are spares in the kit. That might come round to bite me later.
With some figs for scale.
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