You've made an excellent job of it but frankly, from yourself I expected nothing less!
These old Lima 42 footers really do polish up into a very nice layout model.
That reminds me, I do have a couple of parcels vehicles to finish off for my 'Elvis era' parcels and the nice new B1 to haul it!
Dave.
It does look nice. The Lima model is dimensionally pretty good. Before I did mine I compared it wioth the LMS society drawing in the Railway Modeller (about October 1964 I think) and found it pretty close. The big letdown was the bogies and the Bachmann ones are a good idea.
Very nice- I've always liked the Lima LMS 42' van as a model, and it really does scrub up very well with a little work- I really must get round to tackling the bogies on mine
Hello Rob,
You have got me now, TBH I just don't know what make it is. I got it from a local model shop (Tennants Trains Halesowen) who has boxes and boxes of odds and ends. It was in a box of other chimneys all loose and cost me the Princely sum of 40p!
Sorry I can't be more specific but, next time I go there I'll ask John Tennant if he knows who supplies them.
Cheers!
Frank