World Craft C55 Hokkaido Version - Which Loco#??

[mattdwnunder]

I have managed to purchase a World Craft partly assembled C55 which is incomplete but which appears to have the major parts of the loco body and tender shell and possibly the tender bogies.  I am guessing from the enclosed cab that the original kit was a Hokkaido version and I note that World Craft tends to make their kits to represent a specific locomotive number. Can someone please advise which loco number from the photos I have included that this incomplete kit is supposed to represent?

[marknewton]

Matt, your model represents one of the 21 C55s that were streamlined. They have an enclosed cab, with a higher roof that has a more pronounced curve than the standard C55 cabs, and a flat front. So it could carry any number between C55 20 and C55 40.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.