Greetings everyone
Well, the moment we've all been waiting for - well, I have anyway - it's finally finished!
Yes, after what, 9 months or so, it's over. The cursing, swearing, long nights and multiple painting sessions have accrued to this. I hope it's been worth your time.
As I said right from the start, this is my very first engine I have ever built and most likely my last.
I am really happy with how it's turned out overall and IMO; it’s my best work to date. It still needs figures but they'll come along when it's time to build the dio I have in mind for it. For the moment though, I used the kit supplied base but added my own ballast to it and some greenery for interest. I had a b***h of a time getting the rails to sit on the ties and in some cases, it didn't.
This is my own fault for adding the ballast before I inserted the sleepers. On the K5, I'll do it in reverse and add the sleepers before the ballast.
The 2cm flakvierling gun on the back of the tender is quite an intricate model really. I probably should weather it, but I like the contrast it gives the engine.
The original back story I had in mind is the engine had just come back from the front (which explains the dirtiness of it) and has gone
to pick up the K5. As added support, a new flak gun was placed on the tender. Once the dio is all done, I'll add small things to it like chains etc. to give it some more interesting things to look at :)
So, before I start loading the pics, a quick rundown of the AM parts that went into this - this list isn't very big
LZ models resin detail set
Eduard "Big Ed" PE Set4
Ballast and grass
A lot of time spent filling in ejector pins and mold shift marks
This is not a kit for a beginner! On more than one occasion, it almost ended up in the drawer of doom but I persevered and it's now done
Thanks to all those who watched my WIP and especially to those who assisted me with technical stuff. Enough waffling, here's the pics:
Well, that's it for now. Thanks again for looking
Kind regards
Simon
