LarryG
Western Thunderer
In 2018 a friend bought me a Rails/Rapido Dynamometer Car. It's a nice enough model but it was devoid of lining, something the real thing carried right through LNER days until BR got its hand on it. Therefore, the model was inaccurate, a fact that was widely known to railway historians, modellers and others, but not to a certain forum of "experts" who concluded the lining was a trick of the light!
I avoid any kind of lining out as much as possible nowadays due to migraine or dizziness, but it had been carried out in half an hour. My interest in the few 4mm models I retained for display after changing to 7mm has diminished to zero, so I wanted to return the Dynamometer Car to my friend and add a bit to it to make the model accurate for the post-war 1940's....
I avoid any kind of lining out as much as possible nowadays due to migraine or dizziness, but it had been carried out in half an hour. My interest in the few 4mm models I retained for display after changing to 7mm has diminished to zero, so I wanted to return the Dynamometer Car to my friend and add a bit to it to make the model accurate for the post-war 1940's....
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