Looks like a superb model Kevin, extremely neat work. I am just wondering if you made any modifications to the kit?
I'm assuming that the Backwoods 7mm NGG16 is essentially the 009 version but 'shot-up'??
I have two of the 4mm versions that need a visit to the paint shop before selling-on and I'm tempted to get one of the 7mm kits.However, I'm not totally sure if the 4mm version is based on a particular prototype of these locomotives. When I've tried to compare the components of the 4mm version to prototype pictures I've had a hard job settling on some details. It's difficult to know if the SAR made modifications or whether a few compromises were made in the kit design - understandable in smaller scales but harder to get away with in 7mm!
The one thing a lot of people
don¡¯t do is after you have clean your airbrush, don¡¯t just leave it that way,
pour some kero into a lid and allow the straw of the airbrush suck some in so
you are blowing kero out in a mist, then dunk it back in again and one small
squirt and leave the airbrush with the kero in it, thinners is very harmful to O
rings by leaving the kero in the gun it keeps the O rings nice and soft, I leave
my airbrush this way for 6-7 months of the year because I am away from home,
when I next want to use it I just pour some thinners into a lid and start
sucking it through the airbrush allow the straw to blow itself clean a few times
and it is then ready to start painting again.