One of Amy's today, though she asked me to final-paint and weather it. This was another of those impulse purchases at a show (think it was the Barrow Hill exhibition last year), we wanted a 'plonk on the layout and go' kind of loco to just trundle about the layout.
A mixed-media kit, and surprisingly complex for such a small locomotive.
Experimenting as ever, Amy did the base-coats with artists acrylics, marker pens, and the like, no sprays.
The designer has used some ingenuity to hide the motor and batteries on such a small engine too.
The driver is a Bachmann figure, though a little bit too heavy for the loco; it it has a fault, it's that this is such a lightweight loco it's needed a lot of weight adding to make it move without just sitting spinning its wheels.
Paired with the slate-waste wagon from the same manufacturer, which it looks perfect with.
And in print.
A very nice little model, fun to build and paint, and looks good on the layout.
It was also the loco we took to Stoneleigh to the exhibition back in April.
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