Commission: More IoW 02s for EM…
Last year I built an Alan Gibson O2 kit in EM. My customer, happy with the result asked me to work on a few more kits for him and so let me present the next pair to have graced the bench, 30 ‘Shorwell’ and 34 ‘Newport’… These kits are complete apart from motor / gearbox, where I’ve opted for a high quality option from Chris at High Level. The etch artwork looks to have been older CAD, rather than hand drawn and the parts fit together well and assembly is relatively straight forward. I have documented the approach over a variety of Friday updates. The pair illustrated demonstrate some of the variation seen between locomotives in terms of boiler bands, handrail knobs (both a little guesswork based on photos) and tank repair patches as well as ij this case, an interesting twist with the paintwork itself. If you compare 30 (above) with 34 (below) you’ll notice the green on the boiler and cab is different on 34. This was a locomotive that had been repainted in an LSWR green in late Southern...
