Redgate's Modelling

Wow - lovely tidy job - why buy the Bachmann NRM model if you can get such good results with the Dapol kit - and know that its all your own work

 

 

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jon

 

 

Ta, it's a bit more than the Dapol kit though, let's not forget the A1 models grilles and airhorns, Fox plates and whiskers/stripes gleaned from a craftsman conversion kit

 

I'll do a costing when I'm done to see what the relative costs are to an NRM one. But as you say, I've built this one

you can hardly tell that the body is from the Dapol kit! Top notch modelling there

Bill Bedford does a nice little etcing for bending up handrails. excellent if you have to get them all the same.

Code E017, handrail bending jig, not expensive, does everything from 1mm to 17mm in very small steps

Possibly the reason why you had to trim the nose plates is because the original Kitmaster moulding is too narrow at the base (as well as being too tall).

 

There were quite a few clever optical illusions that Kitmaster put it (perhaps accidentally) which I've discovered whilst building my own rendition of the ProtoDeltic..... All of which need correcting!