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Well, I've finally bitten the bullet and begun a journey into 12mm gauge as well as 009 (and 00!) My first foray is a Roxey Mouldings Isle of Man Empress Van. I ordered it a week or so ago and this morning it dropped through my letterbox. I do intend to build a second set of bogies for the vehicle so that I can also run it on my 009 layout (after all, the Ffestiniog have a number of carriages built on ex-IoM underframes, so there is almost a premise!)
I've never built a Roxey kit before, so I was looking forward to getting the box opened and have a look at the contents.
For what is a NPC vehicle I am most impressed with the amount of etched detail provided on the frets, along with the whitemetal castings for bogie/brake details. There's certainly plenty to keep me quiet for a while!
I'll document the building on here so anyone else wondering what these kits are like can see one going together (hopefully), and anyone who has experience can point out where I'm going wrong! I do have a few other irons in the fire at the moment so progress might not be overly quick to begin with! Regular readers will not be surprised at this!
Cheers
J
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