New Years modelling resolutions 2023

[SM42]

Well I've just looked at what I wrote nearly 12 months ago. 

 

Not moved into the railway room yet as it is still being used a a triage centre for household objects. A work in progress. 

Still a couple of jobs to finish in there too before I move in fully, but hopefully they will be done by new year. 

 

A few wagons have moved through though to completion  though and the EN57  and SM31  were just too great a temptation. 

 

So a partly successful year. 

 

Andy

[Wolseley]

I suppose my resolution would be to make a start on a few more of my stash of unmade whitemetal kits and convert them into models.  I managed to do this with two of them in 2023 (or four if you count the repair and rebuilding of two already made GEM Cardeans).

 

The two I did in 2023?  The first one was a GEM NBR Glen, mounted on a Tri-ang L1 chassis.  It's not an NBR Glen any more though - a bit of work changed it into a Highland Railway Big Ben.  Second was a DJH Caledonian 60 class.  After trying to make a workable chassis out of the DJH parts (I hasten to add that this was a very early DJH kit and the chassis components leave a lot to be desired) I gave up, got out a Tri-ang Albert Hall (with a damaged body) I had in storage, removed the superstructure of the body, modified a few bits and married it to the body parts of the DJH kit.  Not perfectly to scale, of course, but as I run mostly vintage models, the compromises are acceptable (at least to me) and I now have a 60 class that runs reliably and can haul six tinplate coaches and could probably take more.

 

So for 2024, I am aiming to do more of the same.  With at least 15 unmade kits (I haven't counted them), my first job will be fitting a Tri-ang M7 chassis to a DJH Caledonian 439 class.