Pushing on with the theme of digging out old kits, a good rummage in my boxes unearthed a nice little Scale Link kit for a1928 Morgan:

I don't remember buying this, but the "GM&S" price label is a giveaway as to its age. Godfather Models & Supply was a very good Dutch model railway specialist with a finescale bias. I don't think I ever visited the shop, but they went to the two large Dutch exhibitions that I used to attend from time to time, and were a good source of things like Precision paints, Gibson wheels, Slaters kits and so on. They catered for the Dutch market but there were obviously enough modellers in the Netherlands with an interest in UK stuff to justify including some British-specific items, such as the Morgan. I think I even bought a Slaters clerestory coach from them.

GM&S still has a website, but I don't know if it's still an ongoing business.

Anyway, onto the Morgan. I'd glanced at the kit from time to time over the years but never felt quite in the mood to build it, but once I got the pieces out onto my bench, it almost fell together. The parts were generally clean and the fit was excellent.

The instructions suggested green, cobalt blue or post office red would be good livery options. Happily, since I'd also been working on the postboxes,  I had some red already open and stirred! Actually it's just bog-standard Humbrol red, but if you don't tell, I won't.

The finished model is tiny. How spiffing it must have been to be driving one of these around in 1928! The only addition to the kit was a pair of windscreen glasses, made from acetate.

As for the postboxes, I've now completed the K6 (see previous entry for the K1) and it stands here in comparison with a ready-to-plonk one from either Hornby or Bachmann. The RTP one doesn't look too bad, but the sides, with their printed-on bars, inevitably lack a bit of relief and presence compared to the etched one. However I think either would work fine as long as they're not right next to each other. The fittings in the RTP one are much too modern for a steam-era layout but you can't open the door anyway so they don't really jump out. On the plus side, the "telephone" signs look nicer on the RTP one.

That's all for now! Thanks for reading and hope this is of interest.