I've had this kit for over twelve years. Its for Resilient class diesel loco, built by John Fowler in the 40's and powered by either a 3 or 4 cylinder Fowler-Sanders diesel engine. Three 2' gauge locos worked at Alpha Cement at Cliffe-at-Hoo two of which still survive, one at Amberly Museum (the loco this kit was based on) and the other at Armley Mills in Leeds. Some were built to 3' gauge, one worked at Marland in North Devon and another at Dinmor on Anglesey. The Dinmor loco still survives and can now be found on the Cavan and Leitrim in Eire.
The kit is OO9 and whitemetal and sits on a Grafar HST power bogie, bought new at the same time the kit was aquired. I'm not going into great detail about the build as its pretty straightforward but let the pictures tell the story.
Here's the cab;
The bonnet frame sides being glued in place;
And the radiater/front bufferbeam in place and the power unit fitted;
I prefer to glue whitemetal using 5-minute Araldite. Once I used to solder whitemetal but these days I can't be bothered. Soldering might be quicker though...
Paul.
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