Off on a 7mm tangent again. I returned home from Guildex this weekend with a 7mm Class 37, professionally built from a DJH kit by Keith Barber. It's seen here (minus a few detail parts that have yet to be added) next to the diminutive 4mm equivalent from Bachmann.
The DJH kit is by no means completely accurate and caused me some considerable disappointment when it was first released, especially in the roof profile. Having lived through the saga of Bachmann's definitively inaccurate 4mm model, however, I can better appreciate it's distant 7mm cousin. Few things in life are perfect - for my money the DJH kit is the closest to the real thing so far.
I've always spent a fair bit of time modelling in 7mm, in fact the majority of my wagon building has been in this scale for more years than I care to remember. Up until the last house move I've always had a 7mm layout, but I've not started one since moving to Telford as I wanted to get the main 4mm layout to an operable level as a priority. But now, I think, it's time to rectify that omission - track components have today been ordered from C&L Finescale!