Railway Tools & Equipment (35572) 1:35

[Mike]

Railway Tools & Equipment (35572)

1:35 MiniArt via Creative Models

 

 

Dioramas thrive on ancillary items that lend an air of realism, where the devil really is in the detail.  There are plenty of 1:35 railway engines out there or various eras (mostly WWII from what I've seen), and scratch-building the equipment specific to railways is a chore, as would be the research to get things right.  This little figure-sized box from MiniArt contains all that hard work, and all you have to do is glue them together and apply a little paint.

 

 

 

 

The box contains seven small sprues of grey styrene, and two individual parts in clear and red styrene.  The build and painting guide is on the rear of the box along with a sprue map, as well as a paint conversion chart in Vallejo, Mr.Color, LifeColor, Tamiya, Testors, AK, Humbrol, Revell, and Mission Models, plus the names of the colours in English and Ukrainian (that's a guess, but a fair one).

 

Each sprue contains parts for a particular item, which consists of a wheel barrow-like trolley, two spare sleepers/track ties, two sizes of bucket, a lamp with clear & red lenses, a set of grips, fire extinguisher and blow torch.  There are also a bunch of other single part tools that require no construction, with shovels, axes, hammers and an oil can amongst the sprues, which you can see in the photos.

 

 

Moulding is excellent, as is the detail, with proper engraved wood grain on the wooden parts of the trolley and sleepers.  Just the sort of thing found in corners around railway and other engineering locations.

 

 

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