It is modelling Jim, but not as we know it.

Santa gifted me a sheet-metal model kit of a classic W-Class Melbourne tram.
Working in metal drew on different skills to the plastic I am used to. And as a model rather than a gaming kit, there was quite a bit more detail than I’m used to.




The detail is cool and the kit is well engineered. It went together OK, once I worked out some of the tricks needed. In this way the kit was quite clever, with the challenge of the different sub-assemblies increasing before the final assembly.
I enjoyed the challenge and the end result is quite sweet, and captures W-Class trams quite well.

Only a few routes still use them, which is a good thing, on the whole. Hard to get on and off (impossible for wheelchairs), hot in summer, cold in winter, I’m happy to leave them to nostalgia.