Back to the drawing board: A new 009 kit...
It has been a while since I sat down and designed something, a process I've enjoyed since the first kit 10+ years ago for Narrow Planet... However a new book and a desire to do something a little different to the usual kit building, weathering and layout construction this week saw me fire up my MacBook and refresh my memory with the peculiarities of the only 3D CAD software I can drive these days, Sketchup 2017. Opening up the laptop, opening up the software I felt that comfortable sense of being 'at home'. Buttons, tools, workflows - things haven't changed and the result, whilst clunky and not the best option, in terms of software, these days I feel calm as I settle into that familiar pattern. Draw a shape, push pull cut. The result is a Jung-alike, design cues in the buffer beams and cab details and proportions inspired by a number of prototypes found on the internet. It has a much burlier character than the other models I have designed for the superb Percy chassis,
