I think I have a problem
Being a simple sort of a chap, I have spilt the world into two types of people, Railway Modellers (even those who model the SR) and Non-Railway Modellers.
The problem is that unfortunately there seems to be far more Non-Railway Modellers in the world, which kind of make me thing I'm an endangered species, I certainly feel this way sometimes when I'm threatened with extinction, when the Domestic Overlord has to clean up the aftermath of some of my modelling miss-haps (hot soldering iron in pocket, glued slipper to foot, spray painting my had to name a few).
Anyway some of the strange ones (none modellers), often make comments to me along the lines of, "do you really need another toy train" to which I usually mutter something under my breath an slope off the layout. Anyway after years of these comments, I think they may have a point, do I really need more trains.
I had some time I few weeks ago so I set out to complete a few little jobs on the Jubilee's and Rebuilt Scots in the fleet, mainly fitting lost traction tyres, toutching up some weathering and fitting lamps etc.
It was then that I noticed I had added two new locos to the fleet (seen in the back of the photo), one was a crimson Jube at a bargain too good to resist price, and the other was a BR Green spares or repair Evilbay bargain.
The Jube just needed to be re-numbered, fitted with a crew and headlamps and then she received a spot of light weathering (unusual for my Jubes) and she was ready to join the fleet.
I'm not too sure if the subtle weathering is for me so I might have to apply a little more grot to her in the future. As for the Scot, my original intention was to portray a war time unlined black and grotty appearance.
The problem was that during the research process, I found photos of a couple of Scots in what appears the be simple red lining, and like most things one thing led to another and she got some lining. I applied a little weathering mainly to hide my shaky lining, but also to portray a well kept hard working loco, headlamps fitted for parcels so I will have to see how she looks on the layout.
So there you have it, I think they are right I have a problem, so to the question of "DO I need another locomotive" no I can honestly say that no I don't need another locomotive, I need LOTS MORE LOCOMOTIVES:)
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