Too often brass sets are made that really are useless. You have to cut stuff away or discard perfectly good parts to use them. I think some guys just do this for that slight edge in competition. I'll admit, I'm not a perfectionist and usually in 35th scale all I want are screens and someties fenders so I can bend them up to show wear and tear. If I have to use a 5X magnifying glass to see little brass parts detail, it ain't worh the effort to me. . To me, 4 sets of brass is excessive. However, the locomtive interior set absoluely blows me away. It gives the appearance of vastly upgrading the detail in this area. The BR52 is #2 on my wish list, I would purchase the interior detail set to go with it.

Having built this kit OOB, the interior set looks particularly nice with a lot of added things that the kit didn't include at all. The prime benefit on the exterior sets is the post-war sheet metal deflectors and of course sectioned treadplate walkways, but mostly boils down to preference on whether the molded detail or brass is the preferred display choice. Not a whole lot of "missing' detail for the exterior as opposed to replacement, the exception being the rear lamps for the tender. It's nice to see AM stuff catching up to this kit though, now you can easily spend over $200 USD to build it if you are so inclined. :-)

Jim, thank you very much, I was kind of hedging on building this, to see what kind of update, accessories set eventually came out. Once again, thank you Armorama Hedda Hoppers for me not having to search for stuff cause you guys are looking out for us !!! And a tad off topic .... Thank you very much wbill76, the smoke deflectors are a "POST" WWII addition. I had asked / mentioned this quite awhile ago after buying the TankWorkshop loco, which is where I first read about this [ instructions ] and alot of people didn't know what I was talking about - can we get some closure on this ? Cheyenne

Cheyenne, My comment on the post-war deflectors deals only with the sheet-metal type. There's some debate as to whether or not the wooden type that are provided in the kit were fitted to all, some, or none of the BR52s in the war period. See link below for BR52s in service in 1985 with the sheet metal fitted for example. LINK

The biggest problem with the interior stuff is hardly anything at all can be seen once everything is buttoned up! And the roof is too poor of a fit to leave off. Some of the other stuff may be useful.

Hi, I believe this is the correct link to the BR50 pictures page: LINK Many more nice pics on different engines: Startpage --> LINK Tks for all comments here, helps to determine what is sensible and what not, depending on own preference... Much appreciated!

I'm going to get this kit the BR 52 locomotive with the PE extras an paint everything German grey an add some railway flatbed cars with stuff on them.If I can do a railway gun also being pulled by this kit also would be a special an long building experience but would get me back into the hobby again an hope I can finish in time for the rail road campaign.Just hope everything looks accurate enough to be good enough as a lot of master modular's on this site to make them proud to have witness the build progress an hopefully help me make everything accurate as humanly possible with my skill I have now.An come out of this as a better modular with everyones help. Happy modeling William DeCicco