This is a somewhat interesting comparison to the wagon kit. For starters its etched brass, rather than plastic, so solder rather than glue. Its also a Worlsey Works etch so more of a scratchbuilder helper than a kit, with no instructions. The Worsley Works etches, im told, follow the Comet Coaches way of building, an a friend has given me some help with some info on those, but is obviously not a book. I need to order the appropriate item from Wizard Models.
However, I have managed to extract the inner ends sections that fold up and form the connection between the floor and body, and laminated these to the coach ends. To be honest I've done very little etched brass work in the past, so the soldering to me looked quite neat. Still a bit too much on the iron I think, but its all a learning curve. So we are underway! The next task will be to solder the window frames and vents on to the bodyside I think.
In other news, as they say, I've now placed an order with Worsley Works for a BR Mk1 coaches, due in a few weeks when the etches are back in stock, and an order is about to go into the 3mm Society for 14.2mm wheelsets, some wagon kits and some rail. Nice to say things are slowly moving forwards, i've come up with a little 'dog bone' shaped test track, and got it designed in Templot. It might not be scenified, and it is something of a tail chaser, but it is primarily for testing locos, running in chassis and giving me somewhere to
play run trains to start with, rather than being a proper prototypical layout - that will follow in due course!
Richie
