At the 2009 Telford exhibition Elliott, Gareth and Steve Warrington conspired to "make" me buy an unmade GRS body kit complete with an LGB Otto donor chassis. Having built one of these kits before (Hunslet 0-4-0ST) I can well imagine that the person who bought it opened the box, took one look at the pile of plastic card, bag of white metal bits and pretty useless instructions and thought "sod that for a game of soldiers". To be fair, GRS have now begun using one piece body mouldings for these kits, so they should be a bit easier, but these original jobs are one heck of a challenge (especially with THOSE instructions!!), hence the reason I had the kit sitting on a shelf doing nothing for 18 months before summoning up the courage to make a start.
A mistake I made with the Hunslet was not painting and properly preparing the chassis, so this time I spent 4 days just doing this. Then work could start on the bodywork. Early days here, parked next to the Hunslet, you can see by the state of the saddle tank how much filler and sanding was required.
Here the bodywork has been done, many of the white metal parts fitted and the whole thing has been primed (extra rivet detail has been added to the buffers beams using Cambrian individual rivets).
A mistake I made with the Hunslet was not painting and properly preparing the chassis, so this time I spent 4 days just doing this. Then work could start on the bodywork. Early days here, parked next to the Hunslet, you can see by the state of the saddle tank how much filler and sanding was required.
Here the bodywork has been done, many of the white metal parts fitted and the whole thing has been primed (extra rivet detail has been added to the buffers beams using Cambrian individual rivets).
