here in UK, Wales to be precise, is a recently-established 16mm scale dedicated company run by one David Williams, who has the enviable job of fireman on the Welsh Highland Railway [WHR], ‘feeding’ their five Beyer-Garratt articulated locos on a daily basis during the running season. He has a small but expanding range of mixed-material models of the ex-South African Railways 2ft gauge rolling stock now to be found mostly on the WHR, but spreading to the Vale of Rheidol and Lynton & Barnstaple tracks. So far I’ve built three of the Type B welded construction ballast cars - see them, in clean condition - on Youtube - tac’s trains - Resurgam cars, and I’m about 90% finished on the older-style, riveted-construction drop-side ballast car, the Type DZ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duoB3bZrUEo
Bearing in mind the method of construction of the original, I’ve elected to apply every single one of the visible rivets, almost 1700 of them, using Cambrian Model Rail plastic 1.5mm rivets…I must be crazy. Well, I am NOW.
I’ll be posting a short movie on YT when it is done, and ready for your inspection. for those here in yUK who might be attending the big Peterborough show on April 9th - look for them all on the Resurgam stand.
He has also produced the SAR Cape Government Railway passenger brake van, but TBH the dark brown lack of colour scheme put me off from building it, although it IS a very fine model. As of 9th May, all his models will be available in complete laser cut ply form, as well as the current MDF/ply versions - there is a small surcharge for this but all-in-all the kits are remarkable value for money, and right now are the only show in town for SAR/RHe wagons in this scale.