Getting A Handle On It

The wagon bodies glue together very quickly but there are lots of other details you can add which take a while longer, if you choose to put them on, like the grab handles which run along the frame of the B wagons.

There are small pilot holes in the master which show up on the casting and it's simply a matter of drilling through and then folding some pieces of 0.5mm brass wire to insert into them.

In reality it takes quite a while because there is a universal modelling law which states than when handling such small pieces at least one in every five will ping out of the jaws of the tweezers and land in the most unlikely place in the room.

You can follow the sound of it landing, or bouncing off something, and spend the time crawling around on all fours looking for it or you can just sigh, pick up the tools and make another one.

I usually opt for the latter strategy.

Needless to say, when I'd finished inserting the last one I looked around the desk and at least three of the errant ones appeared as if by magic.

I suppose it's all part of the fun of making models, eh?