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Showing posts with label LNER Hitachi 800. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LNER Hitachi 800. Show all posts

Friday, September 23, 2022

Connections.

I talked about the Leaning Tower of Dry Doddington a couple of days ago and then about the Hornby Train pack released in 2012 to commemorate the 2012 Olympics yesterday and then today I went cycling back through Dry Doddington to find this.

Dry Doddington

According to Wikipedia, Shona McCallin was one of the members of the British Ladies Hockey Team who won a gold medal at the 2016 Olympics. A strange set of connections but that sort of thing does interest me! 

A bit further down the road I did get this shot of one of the LNER Hitachi 800 trains on the East Coast Mainline. They do look smart!

LNER Hitachi 800

Back at WMD HQ I decided I needed a simple short project and had found this kit in yesterdays sort out and tidy up - yes it was one I had forgotten about!

Knightwing Foden Haulmaster

It is based on an old kit dating back from the early 1980s before being taken over by Knightwing who re-released the kit a few years ago. It is to 00 gauge and it is very simple in detail but that suits me!

Just two spues of parts make up the kit.

Knightwing Foden Haulmaster

The great thing about a simple kit like this is that an hours work saw the chassis more or less finished!

Knightwing Foden Haulmaster

Knightwing Foden Haulmaster

Hopefully the weekend will see most of the kit built unless Mrs. Woody has other ideas for my spare time!