Paying for Quality

If you want real quality in British N, you have to be prepared to pay a premium price of it. This CJM model of EWS's class 67 is a case in point. A hand finished model with a lot of fine etched detail parts, it more than five times as much as the Farish class 47 on the track behind it. Although it is, as Electric Nose would say, "The Dog's Danglies", at that price I had to reluctantly concede that I cannot justify more than one of these magnificent models.

The biggest problem is that is shows up most of the Farish stock it will be hauling as hopelessly crude and toy-like. The super-BG behind it is a conversion of a Farish BG with etched sides, made for my by Ian Stoate of Ian Stoate Models. At the moment I don't have a whole train of the things, though; the rest of the set is the toylike and shiny Farish TPO vans.