I'm building steelworks wagons in 10mm scale and found your blog page very interesting and encouraging.
Clearly a 10mm scale etch of 977 would be quite a formidable undertaking with 16 times as much metal, but still possible of course.
One good source of brass wagons for me is eBay - a badly battered etched kit at a good price saves not only the work of building it but the extra work of battering it as well :-)
Just a note that with the demise of fotopic Paul Bartlett has moved his picture of wagon 977 to:
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Hello Alastair,
I'm building steelworks wagons in 10mm scale and found your blog page very interesting and encouraging.
Clearly a 10mm scale etch of 977 would be quite a formidable undertaking with 16 times as much metal, but still possible of course.
One good source of brass wagons for me is eBay - a badly battered etched kit at a good price saves not only the work of building it but the extra work of battering it as well :-)
Just a note that with the demise of fotopic Paul Bartlett has moved his picture of wagon 977 to:
http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/workingtonsteel/h8766dcd#h8766dcd
David 1/2d
Retired railway engineer, Derby