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The latest wagon subframe kit is for the 9ft wheelbase RCH 1923 steel underframe with Morton brakegear (ref R064).

These were used on LMS 12T Vans (Ratio and Steel sided Cambrian Kit vans), SR 7-plank opens, GWR Loco Coal and 5-plank opens and 12T vans and early LNER 12T vans built by outside contractors.

Three new Meon resin wagon bodies are now available - the late pattern Midland Railway D299 (with side straps),the Glass Houghton Collieries wagon (very wide planks), and a Stephenson Clarke 6-plank.

21/09/25 - Scaleforum..... - read more

30/06/25 - Martin Finney kits..... - read more

 

For earlier posts - read more

 

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Recent releases

Recent releases

Austerity/LNER J94 0-6-0ST kit

GER J16/J17 0-6-0 and tender kit

GWR 3150 2-6-2T. This is a completely new kit to the highest possible standards. It represents the engines as rebuilt from 1919 onwards, with larger (deeper) bunkers, longer smokeboxes and superheated boilers.

This kit produces a complete finescale chassis in either EM or P4 for the Dapol GWR 43/53/63xx 2-6-0 model first released in late 2020. It only requires a locomotive body and a tender (which are available as spares) and not a complete Dapol locomotive.

Produced for us by Andy Vincent of Meon Valley Models, these are the best 4mm scale 3D-printed wagons that we have ever seen. They even have "readable" lettering on the axlebox covers!

The bodies have full interior detail on sides and floor and are designed to fit onto our etched brass sprung wagon underframes; axleboxes and buffers are included.

There are 14 types for Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon opens, two Charles Roberts 16ft, two RCH 1923 7-plank and two RCH 1923 8-plank wagons and Midland Railway D299 and D351 opens.

Finescale chassis for the Bachmann LMS Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0

RCH 1923 Morton braked 9ft wooden solebar sub-frame. It is designed to fit under Slaters, Cambrian and Parkside wagons and includes finely detailed single-sided brakes activated from both sides.

Other easy-to-assemble sprung sub-frames for the RCH 1907, RCH 1923 and Gloucester 9ft wheelbase Private Owner wagons and RCH 1932 10ft Morton braked steel or wooden underframe wagons are also available. All types incorporate springing as standard.

3-link couplings

We have sourced some very fine, pre-blackened chain which can be paired with our coupling hook etches to produce superb 3-link couplings.

 

The chain is available in two types - scale and fine, and with either copper or iron links.

Martin Finney 4mm scale kits

 

We have parts to make-up most of the former Martin Finney range of 4mm kits - six LSWR/SR locomotives and three tenders, fifteen GWR locomotives and three tenders, four LNER locomotives and four tenders and two LSWR van kits.

Please email us if you wish to buy any of these because we do not keep complete kits for all of these in stock and may have to pack a kit to order and purchase any components needed for the kit. In the latter case we will require payment up front before we order the components to complete the kit.

The parts stocks for the LNER and LSWR/SR kits are almost exhausted and we will give details of the last few of each kit in the New Year when we have assessed the position.

 

Discontinued products

We no longer sell 4mm and 2mm etched windows, 4mm coupling rods and axle spacing and buffer height gauges.

These were discontinued at the end of 2023 and are now with London Road Models.

We have included many photographs of completed models and these take the form of thumbnail pictures which, when clicked, open out to full size photographs which can be viewed in (sometimes excruciating) close-up.

For most of our range, we have downloadable instructions and pictures of the etches where appropriate.

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