The kit looked straight forward, even after the warning from fellow modellers, who had tackled Strath Kits before. I cleaned by the excess 'flash' and added the few detail parts. Then, on referring to some photos, I soon noticed that each deck was too short! A search on the ARTC website for rolling stock info, come up with with a length of 27.6m over pull points, which made the model 17mm too short in scale.
Shows one modified and one un-modified unit. |
It was then all clean up of the filler and paint the primer. I also used a half inch screw for the centre bogie (drilled straight through), as the shorter screw supplied would not bite the 3D print to hold.
Unit in primer grey, awaiting final livery. |
Above, is a RQEY loaded with a 40' container, clearly showing the gap a the end of the deck, which if you built the kit as was, the 40' container sit on the whole deck with no gap.
More photos: unloaded from Malleeroute flickr site.
www.flickr.com/photos/malleeroute/8496409881/in/photostream/
And another loaded shot from Wagonfreaks blog.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wFDQtik5Tpw/Ul5vHG0xnZI/AAAAAAAAGFs/hOVwTP7WnKM/s1600/_1-RQEY+1868+%28Large%29.jpg
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