7mm Ressaldar's kit building swansong - Class 22

Well, the finishing post has been passed as far as I am concerned, on this model at least.

The errant cab sides have been rescued as Craig says in the previous post and the weathering done, so here we are





now to tackle the concrete slabs on the layout around the fuelling point and the parking area off of the turntable whilst waiting for the Minerva Class 14s to arrive (once the correctly coloured cabs have been received and fitted at Minerva)

The name plates for the Regional Railways Class 31 - 31 421 Wigan Pier should be with me shortly from Railtec so they will be fitted and the model re-advertised and hopefully sell, especially as the new Heljan Class 47s are imminent.

Further photos are posted in the Gallery section.

Thanks for all of your likes and comments, they have been a great help in the building of this kit which whilst it is fairly straight forward, there are quite a few twists and turns along the way that needed your inputs to see me past the post.

regards

Mike

Interesting to compare the relative conditions of the new blue and older green in this video.

I hadn't really appreciated previously just how see through the main side grills were on a D63xx / Class 22 previously.

Heres one i did earlier.

This was a Steve Beattie kit with additional JLTRT parts mainly the bogie side frames and lost wax castings .

Andrew Thompson said:

Heres one i did earlier.

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Fare play Andrew, that looks pretty good considering it origins, did the build drive you insane ? Or in a sadistic way did you enjoy it ?

Best regards
Craig

Hi Craig

Yes and no , several years in the making tells its own story. Without the JLTRT parts would still be sat in the works.

Andrew

(Theres an old thread on her somewhere describing the trials and tribulations. )

Jordan said:

There was a thread on here, but all the photos went in the notorious PhotoBucket fiasco, again a few years ago now.

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I have them all if you need them.
Dave

Jordan said:

I've got them backed up somewhere, just never got round to re-posting them on the thread.
If anyone else wants some dodgy photos of equally dodgy Comedy Soldering, feel free to ask.

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Always up for a laugh Jordan .
Cheers Paul

paulc said:

Always up for a laugh Jordan .
Cheers Paul

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Always good to see any pics. I enjoyed that build too. And as I remember it turned out pretty well.

Ross

Jordan said:

I've got them backed up somewhere, just never got round to re-posting them on the thread.
If anyone else wants some dodgy photos of equally dodgy Comedy Soldering, feel free to ask.

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If Jordan has no objections, I could post a downloadable copy (c2.5mb in .pdf form) of the entire thread with pictures but with SBB removed. If you're new-ish around here and don't know what SBB is, the S is for spam......
Dave

Here it is then. Help yourselves everyone. The F-UnitMad pdf is from RMWeb, the Jordans pdf is from WT
Dave