| Product | Category | Sub-Category | Company | Diagram | Reference | Description |
| DMU/EMU/Railcars | Kits | | London Transport | | | South Acton shuttle. Double ended single unit driving car converted from District Railway G stock. Two prototypes in service 1940-1958. Resin kit. Requires wheels, motor and gearbox to complete.
If requested in advance, this kit can be completed as one of the 35 Q23 Driving cars that were in service until the 1970s . In this case the second driving cab will be replaced by a standard guards [non-driving] end.
A pdf copy of the instruction sheet is available on request to asharma955@hotmail.co.uk |
| Services | | | | | | 2D/3D CAD/Kit design service. Small 3D printed patterns suitable for lost wax casting and/or complete kits are possible. Dependant to some extent on availablity of reliable prototype source material and time.
Additionally, a 3D scanning service for objects ranging in size from 1/2inch diameter to size of a 12inch: 1 foot small car [approx] is available. However, for obvious legal reasons, only objects for which the holder posesses the copyright can be considered. People can be safely scanned and 3D printed. |
| Locomotives - steam | Kits | Tender components | London Midland & Scottish | | | Resin and etched N-S kit of the LMS self-weighing tender as used on half dozen Black 5s at various times and on at least one Jubilee [45632 'Tonga'].
It is a conversion kit designed to work with the Gladiator or David Andrews Rivetted or Welded [but not part-rivetted] Stanier 4000 gal tender kit.
Instructions are available as a pdf file on request to asharma955@hotmail.co.uk
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| Road Vehicles | Kits | Commercials | A.E.C. | | | AEC Militant ex-WD 6x6 re-bodied as 10ton recovery/crane vehicle by LT. Fleet number 1456MR. Resin body, WM wheels with LW brass details. Prototype preserved by London Bus Museum, Brooklands, Surrey. |
| Tramways | Tramway vehicles | Kits | Glasgow Corporation Tramways | GCT sett 36, 37 | | Glasgow tramways sett car. Resin kit with lost wax fittings including gantry, all cab equipment and long bow collector. White-metal truck sides and etched N-S spacers. No wheels are provided. A 49mm wheelbase KW Models motorising kit is recommended as the kit has been designed around this motor/wheelset combo. Full illustrated instructions are available on request to asharma955@hotmail.co.uk |
| Road Vehicles | Kits | Buses & coaches | A.E.C. | | | 1950-built, full front, AEC Regal IV single decker, 36-seat, front entrance bus used initially by London Transport in the country area. After 1952 returned to AEC and sent country wide as a demonstrator vehicle. Kit is resin with vacformed glazing, WM wheels and L/W brass detailing parts. Prototype is currently preserved as a working vehicle at the London Bus Museum, Brooklands, Surrey. |
| DMU/EMU/Railcars | Kits | | Southern | class 487 | | 1939 Bulleid/English Electric designed, Double ended, class 487 Waterloo and City Line, tube-sized driving motor open second modified as running after 1956 with elastomeric axleboxes. Resin kit with lost wax detailing parts. A pdf copy of the instruction sheet is available on request to asharma955@hotmail.co.uk |
| Wagons | Kits | | London Transport | | | 10 Ton Brake Van. One of two converted from 1935-built flat wagons in the late 1950s by London Transport for use with track welding engineer's trains. Numbered as FB578 and FB579, the former still exists in preservation at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton Road. A resin kit with many lost wax and WM detailing parts. A pdf instruction sheet is available on request to asharma955@hotmail.co.uk |
| Locomotives - diesel & electric | Kits | | British Railways | | | Class 70 co-co Electric loco 20003 as running in period 1957-64 approx. This loco was a development of CC1 and CC2 built by the Southern Railway around 1940 but was completed by British Railways after nationalisation. A resin kit with lost wax castings and a nickel-silver Judith Edge Kits-designed etched & sprung pantograph kit included. Designed to be easy-build. A copy of the instructions may be requested from asharma955@hotmail.co.uk. Motor, gearbox and wheelsets are not included. |
| Road Vehicles | Components | | | | | Finely detailed 1/43rd scale one-piece resin casting of an AEC A204 "RT" bus engine [but similar to most forward mounted large commercial vehicle engines {or boat engines} from 1930-1965]. Suitable for use as a load on a 3-4ton truck such as the Ford Thames Trader in the arun's design range. |
| Wagons | Components | Body Fittings | Metropolitan | | | 3-Plank wooden wagon body. Prototype built for the Met. Rly. around 1890 and remained in service with the LT engineer fleet until mid-1960s. Kit consists of resin wagon body, lost wax non-sprung but accurate outline Met/LT buffers and WM separate leaf springs and axleboxes. This kit requires 3-link couplings, Slater's wagon wheelset 7120 and Bill Bedford etched W-irons and 9ft 6in WB etched brake gear. |
| Tramways | Tramway vehicles | | Glasgow Corporation Tramways | | | 1/43rd scale resin kit of a Glasgow Hex Dash Standard tram. A thousand built from 1898 onwards and rebuilt and modified many times over the next 63 years. No two eventually would be quite alike. This is a body kit which employs a motorised 4-wheel truck available additionally from www.terryrusselltrams.co.uk Many lost wax detailing parts which could be available separately if there is demand. Not designed for other than two rail pick-up though a L/W brass bow collector and springs is included. A *.pdf of the instruction sheet is available on request to asharma955@hotmail.co.uk |
| Road Vehicles | Kits | Buses & coaches | London Transport | Class K3 | | K3 Class trolleybus dating from 1939-40. Lasted in service until Autumn 1961. 30ft long & 7ft6in wide seating 72 pax. Prototype class of 25 vehicles spent all their working lives at Edmonton working on Hertford Road routes between Waltham Abbey and Liverpool Street Stn. Resin bodied kit with white metal wheels and lost wax brass fittings. Instructions in *.pdf form may be requested from asharma955@hotmail.co.uk. Designed to be a static model rather than one that is intended to be motorised. Kit is complete less paint, glue and transfers. A bespoke pack of transfers is available for the kit as an optional item. |
| DMU/EMU/Railcars | Kits | | London Transport | | | Resin kit [bodysides, roof, ends and bogies] for a 1931 tube loading gauge, "Standard Stock" trailer car. 130 prototypes were built by BRCW & GRCW and were the final development of tube stock prior to the development of the semi-streamlined 1938 stock. Some bespoke lost wax fittings included. All that is required for the purchaser to provide are two pairs of Slaters 7130 [2ft8in Lowmac] wheelsets. Instruction sheet will be freely available on request from asharma955@hotmail.co.uk |
| Locomotives - diesel & electric | Kits | | Southern | | | Class 70 co-co Electric loco 20001 or 20002 as running in period 1957-64 approx. These locos were built by the Southern Railway and lasted in BR service until 1968. Fitted with "boosters" so as to prevent power variations when travelling across cgaps in the conductor rails, they also had pantographs to collect current in shunting yards. This is a resin kit with lost wax castings and a nickel-silver Judith Edge Kits-designed etched & sprung pantograph kit included. Shoebeams are white metal castings. Designed to be easy-build, a copy of the instructions may be requested by e-mailing asharma955@hotmail.co.uk. Motor, gearbox and wheelsets are not included though sprung buffers and couplings are. This kit is designed for one [or two] M1833 motors with a Roxey 40:1 fold up gearbox. |
| Road Vehicles | Kits | Buses & coaches | London Transport | 2RF2/1 | | GreenLine RF coach. AEC Regal IV 30foot long production vehicle with MetCam bodywork dating from late 1951. Remained in service as London Transport's standard single decker coach [and later bus variants] until April 1979. Many passed to other bus operators after being sold by LT. This is a resin bodied kit with white metal wheels and lost wax detailing parts. A free pdf of the instruction sheet is available on request to asharma955@hotmail.co.uk. A bespoke transfer pack is also available for this kit as an optional extra. |
| Tramways | Tramway vehicles | | London Transport | exLCC M Class | | A 1/43rd scale resin bodied 4wheeled tramcar kit of an ex-LCC M Class tram as operating in London Transport days between 1933-38. Kit is resin with a whitemetal non-motorised truck and lost wax brass detailing parts. A lost wax sprung trolley boom is supplied. Whilst this is sold as static kit, it has been designed to be readily motorised by using a C21 motorised truck as sold by Terry Russell Trams. Full colour instructions for building this kit are available as a free 2-part PDF download on request to asharma955@hotmail.co.uk |
| Tramways | Tramway vehicles | | Glasgow Corporation Tramways | | | 1/43rd scale resin kit of a Glasgow Round Dash Standard tram. A thousand built from 1898 onwards and rebuilt and modified many times over the next 63 years. This kit produces the Phase 4 [final] variant as operated from the mid-30s to the early -60s. No two "standard trams" eventually would be quite alike. This is an unmotorised kit which includes parts to produce an unmotorised truck. However it is also designed to accept [without modification] a motorised 4-wheel truck available additionally from www.terryrusselltrams.co.uk Many lost wax detailing parts which could be available separately if there is demand. Not designed for other than two rail pick-up though a L/W brass bow collector and springs is included. A *.pdf of the instruction sheet is available on request from asharma955@hotmail.co.uk If building the kit as an unmotorised static model, then we recommend that you buy two axles of 4mm wheels from Alan Gibson. Full details of these options will be found in the instruction sheets. |
| Road Vehicles | Kits | | London Transport | | | L.T. 1936 AEC Mercury 3 bay Tower wagon. Resin cab and body with a lost wax three piece telescopic tower. Pdf instruction sheet available on request to asharma955@hotmail.co.uk |
| Road Vehicles | Kits | Commercials | London Transport | | | Ford Thames Trader Mk2 Crewcab box body London Transport auxillary breakdown tender dating from around 1963 and in service until approx 1980. Kit is resin with WM wheels. Kit designed with separate detailed ladder chassis so if preferred the basic vehicle could be converted [with scratchbuilding] into a crewcab dropside lorry.
In due course, I will probably produce suitable alternate parts.
In LT service the vehicles had the fleet numbers 1281F-1283F. |