Woody buys a caravan but not the holiday kind!

This arrived in the post the day, whilst Mrs. Woody was out. I could not have planned it better!

It is a 3D print, a form of model production that I am becoming increasingly impressed with the more I see how it is developing and the reasonable prices that are generally charged. 

Now this one is a caravan, just not the sort you go on holiday with. It is in fact another narrow gauge loco. Not to my usual 4mm to the foot running on n gauge 9mm track, but this one is 7mm 0 gauge, i.e. nearly twice the size of 009. However it does still run on n gauge 9mm track. This photo illustrates the difference with 7mm or 09 gauge on the left and 4mm or 009 gauge on the right.

The kit itself is based on a real loco and to quote Google - 'The Simplex Caravan is a small, unusual variant of the Motor Rail Simplex class of locomotive with an overall cab. The prototype was built in 1938 and is the only example to have been supplied to a UK company. It is currently preserved on the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway.' There is an interesting picture of it here in a very bright yellow paintjob. Not sure what colour mine will end up in but probably it wont be as bright!

Theses are the kit parts - all three of them so it is not a problem that there are no illustrated instructions to assist the model maker!

The level of detail achieved is remarkable with all the hand controls, foot pedals and other small parts all included in the print.

It should be fun getting this going and painted up and where am I going to run it? Well the answer to the last question is still in floating around in my mind but a plan from my initial idea when I bought this is beginning to come together and will involve what I talked about in a previous post here.! Stay tuned for further updates!