Weekly Photo Fun - May 9th-15th

[doctorwayne]

Here's a look at a recent visitor to Port Maitland:










The model is a non-powered OO scale kit from Rosebud Kitmaster, and represents an LMS (London Midland and Scottish Railway) Beyer-Garratt. The owner of my nearby LHS recently purchased a train collector's estate, and among the myriad of goodies was included two of these kits, both unbuilt and new-in-box. Supposedly this loco was offered for only one year before the company was sold, and while many other locos from Kitmaster were re-released, this one never was, making it somewhat of a collectors item.
I was asked to build one kit, with instructions to letter it for the TH&B, and to number it one above the TH&B's two ex-NYC Hudsons, 501 and 502. I was also told to weather it heavily, something yet to be done. Paint is a combination of Floquil, Polly Scale, Humbrol, and Testors, and the lettering is from Aberdeen Shops.

Wayne