BUILD HALF-TIMBERED COTTAGES

“Those look nice, what make are they?” I asked while taking photos of ‘Hadarford’ for this issue. My eye had been caught by a few attractive thatched cottages, which turned out to be lightly weathered Hornby Skaledale models.

My first guess hadn’t been Margate manufacture, though, it had been the thatched cottage plastic kit from Dapol.

This kit has quite a history. First launched by Kitmaster in 1958, it remained in the Airfix range when it was taken over, and has hardly been out of production since. 63 years is a long time and a lot of plastic. If you saw the ‘Ffarquar Branch’ built by Rev W Awdry in last month’s issue, you might have spotted an example in the corner of the model. At the time, this