The work is proceeding in a steady pace. I really enjoy modelling when you CAN'T do everything at once, when the kit itself forces you to work in stages, menaing that you can and must step-away now and then, and do all the other things that life requires. It takes time, but it's more relaxing.
This is the front of the B-Zug, by all intents and purposes finished. The Tolls Boxes have been given handles by thin lead wire - an excellent modelling medium BTW - the Lights have been drilled out, painted white, and then filled by Clear Kote. A correction is visible here: the MGM kit has the cranking handle in dead centre, whiel at least some of the B-Zug's had a special contraption, whereby the handle was placed to the right (left in the photo) connected to a small chain drive - again lead wire.
And this is the rear. Some painting remains to be done, also a winch wire is to be added - lead wire, of course. Notice the "cockpit". Most trucks in this period had a minimum of instrumentation, just a rev meter, if that. The B-Zug, being a technically advanced truck - with the diesel engine driving an electrical generator, that powered the whole train, had a more advanced instrumentation. Luckily I had a very good photo of the cabin, showing the dials, the steering wheel details etc.
2 comments:
What scale is this kit? 1/72, right?
Yes, it is 1/72. The mark is the German firm of MGM.
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