Nigel Hunt Kits

A range of locomotive kits and components with a L&Y/LMS/BR (Midland) theme.

New releases

Now available

I also have available parts needed to convert my Midland Railway Johnson 3,250gal tender to the original style with lower front bulkhead and full length coal rails. Price £2.

Please contact me if you need more information.

Photo Etch Consultants Ltd.

Many of you may have heard that the etchers, Photo Etch Consultants, have ceased trading. I and several other members used this company to produce many of our etched kits. Fortunately, much of the photo tooling, including my own, was rescued by Bob Jones and Chris Higgs and returned to the owners. However, finding another company that can use the photo tools is another matter. My photo tools are too wide to fit a standard sheet used by PPD Ltd, my other preferred etcher. So to produce more of my kits I would need to arrange new artwork with either fewer of the existing drawings on a PPD sheet, or parts on the existing drawings re-arranged to create a narrower but deeper fret that would use space on the PPD sheet more economically. Either of these alternatives is costly in terms of time and the expense of creating a new photo tool.

Given the above and that sales of my existing kits are low once the initial rush following their release is over, I am considering not re-stocking most products once existing stocks have run out.

Follow links on kits for futher information and photographs.

Upgrade/Detailing kits for commercial locomotives:

• Farish LMS Fairburn tank, finescaling kit for valve gear, bogie and pony trucks, steps.
• Farish LMS Ivatt 2-6-0 upgraded etched valvegear and tender chassis.
• Farish WD 2-8-0 upgraded etched valvegear and tender chassis.

Replacement Chassis kits for commercial locomotive bodies:

• GEM L & Y saddle tank, chassis kit, designed for Lawton can motor.
• Dapol Ivatt 2-6-2T, chassis kit, designed for coreless motor
• Farish Jubilee 4-6-0, chassis kit
• Farish Rebuilt Royal Scott 4-6-0, chassis kit
• Peco Jubilee 4-6-0, chassis kit, including tender
• Somerset and Dorset Railway 7F 2-8-0 chassis kit (loco only) for GEM whitemetal kit. Also includes some body parts (footplate and cab) to replace the GEM parts.

Complete Locomotive kits:

• Lancashire and Yorkshire 2-4-2T.
• LMS Princess Coronation / Duchess class
• LMS Princess Royal
• Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 7F 0-8-0
• Midland Railway 483 class 4-4-0 etched kit, including full instructions.
• LMS Fowler 2-6-4T body and chassis kit

Note: My full chassis and body kits are designed assuming packing between the top of the chassis and the underside of the footplate of between 0.125mm and 0.25mm. I therefore recommend you use at least 0.125mm packing with plasticard or something similar to bring the body up to the correct height above rail level. I'm sorry this has not been included in the instructions for my kits.

Additional related products:

• Smokebox front ring for the Association Black 5 kit, designed to improve the front end appearance.
  
• Cruciform LMS axlebox covers. You can use these to convert the cast LMS roller bearing axleboxes to the later pattern short link cruciform variant used on many Black 5 tenders. Sold by the dozen, enough for two tenders.
• Stanier 3,500 Gal Tender etched kit
• Generic loco/ tender frame spacers etch
• Ross Pop safety valve etch
• Replacement PECO Jubilee loco steps etch
• Cast bogie pivot bearing for both Jubilee chassis and Princess Royal

Prices, updated August 2024

Unless otherwise specified, postage in the UK will be £3.00 on all orders over £50, and £2 for orders £50 or less. I will advise overseas postage on receipt of enquiries.

All of the above kits and information on the forthcoming items are available from