OO SCALE CLASS T14 "PADDLEBOX" - NuCAST KIT

Nu-CAST MODELS KIT "OO" GAUGE 4-6-0 CLASS T14 [PADDLEBOX] SOUTHERN REGION GREEN No 459. 
DRUMMOND DESIGN CIRCA 1912 
WITHDRAWN DURING 1948.

This excellent model was built from a Nu-Cast kit and is still safely stored in it's original box. Knowing that my late father spent the last 15+ years modelling in O Gauge and stored his considerable OO Gauge away I would make this model at least 20+ years old. And yet it's still in outstanding condition and having also given it a test run was working superbly. 

Great to see that after so much time spent away in a cupboard it needed no more than a light brush down and a test run during which it sprung back into life straight away and has been run around a small test track at low speed, gradually bringing it up for a period of higher speed without trying to overdo it. 

Model still looks great after all this time.

Along with the majority of the collection we had to sell this off to another lucky modeller, but I've got a few left for myself and am going through these to check they run well too. The majority of which are in their original boxes, and safely packaged away.

Nicely detailed inside as well as out.  

I am so proud of his work, it's something I cannot do myself sadly but the memory lives on here and whatever the Scale / Gauge he attempted to build these models show what a great craftsman Dad was. Miss you lots, thanks for everything xx