Airfix Biggin Hill locomotive with photos

McColm · March 14, 2022, 04:32:47 AM

I appear to have found a Airfix Biggin Hill locomotive kit without any instructions or decals. Vintage Airfix has a list of instructions which I have downloaded and I know Fox Models do the name plates and decals for all of the major railway companies in the UK.
The build may not be an accurate rendition but very useful for my 00 gauge layout, as I will know how long the platforms need to be.

PR19_Kit · March 14, 2022, 04:47:43 AM

The BoB kit had very few decals included originally anyway, so you've not lost much. IIRC it was just a pair of nameplates, a few numbers and the BR 'Lion on a Wheel' decal for the tender.

Fox's stuff will be a lot better quality, no doubt about it.

Nick · March 14, 2022, 05:19:19 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 14, 2022, 04:47:43 AM
The BoB kit had very few decals included originally anyway, so you've not lost much. IIRC it was just a pair of nameplates, a few numbers and the BR 'Lion on a Wheel' decal for the tender.

Fox's stuff will be a lot better quality, no doubt about it.

Absolutely right there. Dapol did decals for nearly all the Battle class locomotives. I have 'Fighter Pilot' in my stash.
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/dapol-c48-battle-britain-class-biggin-hill--264895

McColm · March 14, 2022, 10:26:17 AM

Thanks

McColm · March 14, 2022, 01:59:16 PM

Instructions

McColm · March 14, 2022, 02:01:07 PM

And the other page

McColm · March 15, 2022, 01:15:47 AM

This could be the start of the alternative liveries.

Gondor · March 15, 2022, 03:38:00 AM

Interesting. I used to have a train set when I was younger and have never built a model of anything railway related. this could be the start of a very slippery slope.

Gondor

zenrat · March 15, 2022, 03:39:16 AM

My Dad's got one of them built up on the shelf in his study.

PR19_Kit · March 15, 2022, 03:57:59 AM

I've been turning one of those BoB kits into a model of the unbuilt air smoothed Baltic tank engine (4-6-4) that Bullied proposed.

It got as far as this, but that was four years ago.

McColm · March 15, 2022, 05:20:21 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 15, 2022, 03:57:59 AM
I've been turning one of those BoB kits into a model of the unbuilt air smoothed Baltic tank engine (4-6-4) that Bullied proposed.

It got as far as this, but that was four years ago.

I would have thought that you would have stretched it somehow

PR19_Kit · March 15, 2022, 05:33:47 AM

It's actually the opposite, being a tank engine.

I ought to get on and finish it, as well as the ZILLIONS of other stalled projects I have.

McColm · March 15, 2022, 06:54:43 AM

So the next item to get is some 00gauge straight track plus a few coaches/carriages. I'll have to check if these locomotives pulled freight.

Rheged · March 15, 2022, 08:40:36 AM

Quote from: McColm on March 15, 2022, 06:54:43 AM
So the next item to get is some 00gauge straight track plus a few coaches/carriages. I'll have to check if these locomotives pulled freight.

I was told that Oliver Bullied got away with building new express passenger locos during the Second World War by justifying them as "mixed traffic" even though he intended to use them purely for passenger services. If this is the case, freight hauling is a reasonable idea.

McColm · March 15, 2022, 08:46:03 AM

Quote from: Rheged on March 15, 2022, 08:40:36 AM
Quote from: McColm on March 15, 2022, 06:54:43 AM
So the next item to get is some 00gauge straight track plus a few coaches/carriages. I'll have to check if these locomotives pulled freight.

I was told that Oliver Bullied got away with building new express passenger locos during the Second World War by justifying them as "mixed traffic" even though he intended to use them purely for passenger services. If this is the case, freight hauling is a reasonable idea.

Thanks for the information