I've finally embarked on a project to model the fictitious NWR as featured in The Railway Series by the Awdry family.
I'll be putting my own spin on this, giving my version of how things could have looked. After all, a lot of technical details by the rev. Awdry were often 'retcons' to explain away the choices the artist had made (famously disagreeing with C. Reginald Dalby over unrealistic locomotives).
Inspired by Gavin aka Knuckles' own uncompromising replicas of the locos as featured in the books, I hope to come up with something adventurous and fun.