RSS Fetcher Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Today I visited the Rowland Emett exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery with some good friends. Somehow I managed to come away with a Smallbrook Studios kit for 'Hector'.... http://smallbrookstudio.webeden.co.uk/#/products-new/4569521214/%27Hector%27-Body-Gn15-Tender-Locomotive-Kit/3724081 Plainly, this model cannot be run on my eventual planned layout ('the train now arriving at platform 4 has destroyed the edging slabs'), and I cannot afford (in time, space or money) to set about buying more Emett-esque models and building the Far Twittering & Oysterperch. So I'm considering making it a model of a model... I always find at railway museums that there is at least one large scale model of a locomotive in a nice big glass-and-wood case; I always think how nice it would be to own one. What I think I may do with 'Hector' is to build him, then build a case for him with a length of 16.5mm track and a brass plaque on the front... View the full article Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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