Andrew Thompson
Western Thunderer
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Unfortunately Presflows put on the back burner as I purchased a Steve Beattie Class 15 following the news he was retiring .I have always liked these locos and thought if I didn’t take the plunge may go out of production. I would say these are one of his better efforts as mostly all brass. As usually some errors but he does pre warn you but leaves you to discover what these are .Doh . The ones I have identified are the cab doors are too long and subsequently the cab grab handles. Not too much of a problem to re drill and scribe a new line for the bottom of the door. The resin castings for behind the grills and battery boxes not up to the brass etches and will only be used to create patterns out of brass or plasticard. White metal ends needed some filling as can be seen. According to the scale drawings I have, radiator grill frame would appear to be to big 31mm on the model, drawing 27mm so not sure which is right but looking at pictures looks like a bigger distance between last body door and start of the grill frame on the model. I was going to live with this but decided to correct. (See photos).
Hopefully I will post more photos as I progress but modelling time has been at a premium over the last couple of months.
Andrew.
Unfortunately Presflows put on the back burner as I purchased a Steve Beattie Class 15 following the news he was retiring .I have always liked these locos and thought if I didn’t take the plunge may go out of production. I would say these are one of his better efforts as mostly all brass. As usually some errors but he does pre warn you but leaves you to discover what these are .Doh . The ones I have identified are the cab doors are too long and subsequently the cab grab handles. Not too much of a problem to re drill and scribe a new line for the bottom of the door. The resin castings for behind the grills and battery boxes not up to the brass etches and will only be used to create patterns out of brass or plasticard. White metal ends needed some filling as can be seen. According to the scale drawings I have, radiator grill frame would appear to be to big 31mm on the model, drawing 27mm so not sure which is right but looking at pictures looks like a bigger distance between last body door and start of the grill frame on the model. I was going to live with this but decided to correct. (See photos).
Hopefully I will post more photos as I progress but modelling time has been at a premium over the last couple of months.
Andrew.