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Of course I have both Mallard and Sir Nigel Gresley, but the situation you described above resulted in me adding Silver Link in plain wartime...
I didn't realise until after I posted the photos, but there's a body of a Dublo City of London sitting on top of the engine shed. I have...
One thing leads to another....... It all started when I bought a Dublo Duchess of Montrose that was described as a poor runner only suitable for...
I'm not sure if the G&SWR would be the least modelled Scottish railway or if that dubious honour should go to the GNSR, but it's certainly...
An update showing the progress on the 60 Class so far. Photographs are very unkind in that they show up flaws in the finish that the naked eye...
Hello and welcome. The old Lima models are, I think, underrated. They're not perfect by any means (look at the C38's tender, for example) but,...
I've only made two of them up, so I don't have a huge amount of experience with them but, for what it's worth, I used ordinary wood glue both...
And here is the "City of Bradford" as she appeared when on the Southern during the 1948 Locomotive Exchanges, fitted to a larger tender due to the...
I had one too many of those Dublo nondescript green Co-Co diesels - the ones that look like dull green shortened Deltics. For the benefit of...
To me, it's the white and black paintwork (which shouts out west coast of Scotland) the finish on the walls (harling perhaps?) the dormer windows...
The paintwork is a bit rough and unfinished as yet, let alone the complete absence of lining, but the 60 class is at least beginning to look like...
A couple of short videos of some ex-Caledonian action on the layout. The GEM Cardean (on a tri-ang B12 chassis) and a Tri-ang/Hornby Single,...
As everything is done now except for the handrails, I have given it a quick spray in a light cream (basically because that was the only light...
They are sold as LSWR buffers, but they are so close to Caledonian buffers in shape, they're as good as being the same. Drummond left his mark in...
The 60 class hasn't had its coat of "shop grey" yet, but it's now in service without any major issues, just some very occasional phantom...
Going off on a tangent here, but the Highland Railway staff took very enthusiastically to the new LMS livery and painted virtually any locomotive...
The post-war LMS blue grey colour was an experiment confined to one Duchess and one Jubilee as a proposed new livery. The decision, however, was...
Added to which, R A Riddles was an ex LNWR man. I recall reading, in a biography of Riddles (which, regrettably, I no longer have) that in the...
Well, it's almost done. I still have to rework the front buffer beam and fit handrails. The casting for the Westinghouse pump from the kit is...
