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The Pride Of Canton
Rail Express
|December 2017
Looking to portray an early Doncaster-built Class 56, Alex Carpenter describes how he modelled one of the Trainload Metals fleet in no less a form than the Cardiff depot’s notional flagship.
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THE modern rendering of the ‘OO’ gauge Hornby Class 56 has been around for 10 years now. It is a model I really like as, despite a few niggling issues, it can be turned into a loco which looks pretty much spot on. This model is by no means a full on detailing project, rather a couple of evening’s work to show the factory paint finish can be a useable basis.
The chosen subject was a firm South Wales favourite in the form of No. 56044 Cardiff Canton, this being portrayed in its early 1990s Trainload Metals guise as I wanted to represent the loco in its better years before the general rundown of the fleet under Transrail and EWS took hold.
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