Building a plastic kit
The following is 'in the queue' for an MBF Journal having been sent in last year in order to provide some material. It details the building process for a plastic kit from getting the box to having a completed model. Enjoy! Back in 2018, Peco Models brought two plastic bus kits back to the market after a long absence. The former Tower Models Leyland National and Leyland Olympian models came out in a different range of liveries and are still available from a number of different stockists, for less than £10. Older members of the MBF will no doubt recall the Tower models and will have built up numerous examples of them. As one of the younger members of the MBF, I would have been 6/7 when these kits were commonly available and my building skills at that age wouldn't have been sufficiently good to have completed a model, so these passed me by. My late Father acquired one of the National kits in 1993, with the intention of modelling a Southern National bus at his depot. L...