GWR 48XX Auto-tank loco. The very last kit build.

Entry posted by ROSSPOP August 4, 2017

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This is a Modern Outline Kit but I`m not going to give a blow by blow constructional account as it has already been done by many others.

However, my version will be based on No 4851 in 1939 when the rear left hand side steps and access handrail was fitted and also still had he original auto-gear which I have never seen modelled.

I bought the kit in April 2013 with my long service cash award for 40 years at the sharp end in the NHS.......... so thankyou tax payers !!

This is a top- notch excellent kit...not perfect.... but excellently designed and thought through. Not for the absolute beginner but if you patiently read and follow the instructions you will enjoy how the kit is meant to be assembled.

The `not perfect` comment is because certain details have been mandatory and therefore not representative of early versions. The lamp brackets, for instance , are etchings which I dislike and are pre etched in the wrong positions for my version. The rear side steps are positioned with pre etched slots half of which are blocked off by a lost wax casting and drilling lost wax castings into a slot shape aint easy.

A minority of the smaller lost wax castings are poor quality and ill- defined.

But nevertheless it is the best 7mm kit of this loco on the market.

So, the chassis has brilliant beam compensation designed in............