It's been a while since I've posted anything in here, just been busy with so many things. I've documented the full story of this project on the DEMU forum, however following a recent WAG meeting there seemed to be some interest in it so I thought I'd share it over here as well...
I've wanted to do a new Slug for some time (I did one on the old Lima model a few years ago) the old model was not up to my current standard for use on my layout so I set about building a new one, now whilst you can
Afternoon,
This is a little project to model one of the ZBA Rudd variants which cannot be obtained in kit or RTR form.
This started out as a Standard Parkside Grampus kit (PC72) but is being adapted to produce one of the ZB501U diagram rebuilds. This involves stripping the Grampus sides of some moulded detail and replacing this with plastic strip.
Here is a link to what the prototype looks like.
And here is the story with the model so far...
As can be seen I'm taking thi
