Commission: GE 70t in S-scale...

American S scale (1:64) is a new one to me, but this lovely Smoky Valley kit found it's way to my workbench from a customer in Canada. My customer asked me to put the basic kit together, and will be painting and priming the model at a later date...

The kit consists of a one piece body, and one piece chassis frame - plus a lot of lovely details and wire and rod for the handrails. My kit had a pair of North West Short Line bogies, which seem very nicely put together - and the whole model was well thought out with good part fit.

The resin is presumably vacuum formed as the detail is so crisp you'd swear it was injection moulded. I found it worked well with simple hand tools. The chassis needed a little modification to allow the bogies to be fitted - and some of the machining of the brass weight inserts wasn't present.

Grabs and foot board brackets were formed using a neat template, the handrails were soldered up in-situ following the well written instructions. It's a meaty scale, it has a lot more mass than H0 scale, obviously - it almost feels O like in it's mass, but obviously isn't anywhere near as large.

I am happy to work with kits of any type or material, any scale, any material - contact me if you've one in your drawer you'd like me to turn into reality for a no obligation individual personal proposal based upon your exact requirements. The Facebook page, contact form or forums are all welcome. In the meantime, more soon...