Hi there. Just joined RMWeb and found your blog. Any updates?
What prompted my reply was the mystery plastic bodied Y6. I think it might be a Highfield models kit. Way back in the late 70s I had their catalogue and seem to remember a Y6 kit. Their kits were very basic sets of vacuum formings in a gingery brown styrene sheet. Pretty much sides and ends, with a flat sheet to form for the roof. I had a brake van (possibly NE but I can't remember) which was built around a Triang 16T mineral chassis, and a pair of Midland non-corridor coaches built on cut-down Triang coach underframes and bogies. Yes, I know, coil sprung bogies on vintage stock. In my defence I'll point out that I was 12 at the time and so less discerning than I am now. Anyhow, the body of your Y6 has the air of Highfield's vacuum forming.
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Hi there. Just joined RMWeb and found your blog. Any updates?
What prompted my reply was the mystery plastic bodied Y6. I think it might be a Highfield models kit. Way back in the late 70s I had their catalogue and seem to remember a Y6 kit. Their kits were very basic sets of vacuum formings in a gingery brown styrene sheet. Pretty much sides and ends, with a flat sheet to form for the roof. I had a brake van (possibly NE but I can't remember) which was built around a Triang 16T mineral chassis, and a pair of Midland non-corridor coaches built on cut-down Triang coach underframes and bogies. Yes, I know, coil sprung bogies on vintage stock. In my defence I'll point out that I was 12 at the time and so less discerning than I am now. Anyhow, the body of your Y6 has the air of Highfield's vacuum forming.