Like Keith I was looking for something vaguely 28mm compatible to be a locomotive for bolt action, either a German Kreigslocomotive or something Soviet, I was looking at toy trains I could add to my existing HO/OO track and found this in the Works Cardiff in the summer last year.
Obviously I bought three, it would seem silly not to?
The last two images are German Kreigslocomotives which were a simplified wartime economy steam train, funnily enough there's still a couple working at a Bosnian coal mine, still going after 80 years! The first image is an earlier German train and I think resembles our Hogswarts express a bit more? So this is the first of three, with our friend the commisar for company.
I think it's not bad for scale? They're big lumps of resin that needed a fair amount of cleaning up. Sprayed with Halfords black primer and with some wind defenders added to make them look more like the reference drawings , then some raw umber wash, to make it less pristine ( but not as dirty as the Bosnian ones!), bit of steel colour where the wheels meet the rails. I don't think it's too bad and arrayed in front of my damaged factory I think it'll work well enough, for German or Soviet trains, I just have to build some tenders and carriages and paint the other two, no red flags as that would be too specific, so just dirty black!
All the best
Iain
What a great find - perfect.
ReplyDeleteWhy stop with only one!
ReplyDeleteWow that really is very good Iain although having to add the tender is a bit annoying! I considered adding the wind defenders to my engine but didn't in the end. Yours does look more "European " I think.
ReplyDeleteWooow! Agree, looking perfect!
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