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Greetings folks, here's my contribution, some German heavy metal: Revell's 1/87 BR 01 Schnellzuglokomotive. I know the square root of null about this engine, but Wikipedia confidently says it was the first standardised express loco built for the unified German railway network. The idea being that if an engine based in Berlin broke down in Hamburg, the local depot would have the spare parts and know-how to fix it. This same approach would be adopted by British Railways after nationalisation in 1948 with Standard Class series of engines; which I can't help noticing borrowed a few design cues from the BR 01 - smoke deflectors, the high running plate (is that right? My railway nomenclature is a little rusty) for ease of maintenance etc. Anyway, they were built from 1926 to 1938, and some remained in service in the DDR until 1982(!) On to the plastic, moulded in two colours, Matchbox style. It's nice that you get a small bit of track to display it. Small decal sheet: And the very first job was to attack the box with a knife, because Revell. There, much better. TTFN
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While building the 1904 tram I found a toy that caught my interest. It was also in H0 scale like my other build. OK. It is very much a toy when it comes to details, but the overall shapes is correct for my project. I will need to replace the details on the roof. The chassis is diecast but everything else was to my surprise in plastic so it will not be a large problem working on it. The toy couplings has to go and the holes for them as well. I bought two of them. Now I could bring out the saw. This is the result of on of them but most of it will be scrapped. These parts is what is left and will be glued together. When everything is put together it will be something like this.
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Atlas have released some vehicle collections (I think that they has been available under a different name in Europe) They usually have something localy interesting cheap to make you start collecting. I found a Swedish tram that i found interesting so I bought it. When I unpacked it I found this even though the box was intact. I contacted them and they sent me another one. Now I had two trams. Sadly from Gothenburg while I'm in Stockholm. As the base was broken I could just as well rip everything else apart. The model fit in size with a tram from Stockholm. But there are some differences. The top of the windows are rounded so some work there was needed. The fronts are open and need to be rebuilt. The end of the roof had to be shortened down and reshaped. I added a new floor with a finer pattern. Guess it is time for some paint.
