KIT BUILDING has numerous benefits for railway modellers, and saving money over buying ready to run models is the last of them! More importantly, kit-built rolling stock will fill gaps in signature vehicles for a given era and location.
Southern Region modellers will immediately think of several four-wheel ballast wagons currently not available ready-to-run, and unlikely to be so. One is the ZCV ‘Crab’ which fortunately has a kit available to model it, along with the ‘Lamprey’. They are produced by Chivers Finelines (www.chiversfinelines.co.uk) and are reasonably priced too.
Another wagon type is the former Diagram 1/058 ‘Shochood B’ which were converted to ZCV ‘Dace’ engineers’ wagons. No kit for this signature wagon has been made available in plastic, and scratch building a reasonable number of them, either as revenue wagons or converted to ZCVs, would take dedication, even if some common parts were cast in resin.
The ZCV ‘Dace’ print
Enter the resin print from Scale Model Innovations. It solves a lot of problems for 4mm scale modellers! It is a one-piece print incorporating the body, headstocks, solebars and axleguards. It has a great deal of detail incorporated into it, including the internal slots which were intended
