Models
The erstwhile Rosebud Kitmaster company produced an unpowered polystyrene injection moulded model kit for 00 gauge, which went on sale in Spring 1961. In early 1963, the Kitmaster brand was sold by its parent company (Rosebud Dolls) to Airfix, who transferred the moulding tools to their own factory; they re-introduced some of the former Kitmaster range, including this locomotive. The tools were destroyed in a fire at the premises of Dapol Model Railways Ltd in Winsford, Cheshire so that Dapol were unable to produce further kits after their first two production runs totalling 4000 kits after acquisition of the former Airfix moulds. Dapol did however produce a Ready to Run 00 gauge model of the J94 and used the earlier Kitmaster model in certain catalohue shots and exhibition displays prior to receiving finished samples. This model was subsequently sold to Hornby Railways in Margate where it remains in production. Graham Farish and, subsequently, Bachmann produced N gauge Ready to Run models of the J94.
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