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| Evening Star; A last one ... (now FINISHED!!) | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 30 2016, 09:50 PM (482 Views) | |
| chrism | Mar 30 2016, 09:50 PM Post #1 |
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If its time to declare ones hand ... I thought I would try a Dapol train/engine kit. The Evening Star was the last engine ever built by BR, and it was built at Swindon. As a point of fact, Evening Star was also the name of the first ever engine to be built at Swindon many years before. |
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| peebeep | Mar 30 2016, 11:28 PM Post #2 |
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Excellent choice. ![]() peebeep |
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| Grant | Mar 31 2016, 01:36 PM Post #3 |
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What Paul said! |
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| chrism | Jul 7 2016, 08:09 PM Post #4 |
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I thought I ought to admit that I have started to build this It is the old airfix kit which Dapol now issue, and it is proving a challenge to identify the parts from all the flash, but I am slowly nibbling away at it. PS is everyone else posting progress elsewhere? |
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| Grant | Jul 8 2016, 04:05 PM Post #5 |
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Good question Chris. It has been quiet of late. With so much flash can you claim to have carved the model rather than building it? |
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| chrism | Sep 19 2016, 03:45 PM Post #6 |
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I have now sworn at it and struggled with the instructions enough and ended up with the following: The Dapol instructions were an absolute nightmare; far too small to register and work out what was what, which was not helped by all the flash and overrun on the parts .... thankfully a really useful site I found had a set to download from the early (pre-Dapol) Airfix times. |
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| peebeep | Sep 19 2016, 06:02 PM Post #7 |
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Well done for persevering with this. I've got a Dapol issue, which was a nostalgia purchase, but the components have only a passing resemblance to the Airfix kit that I had many years ago. peebeep |
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| Grant | Sep 19 2016, 07:19 PM Post #8 |
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Cracking job Chris. |
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