Today I visited the Rowland Emett exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery with some good friends. Somehow I managed to come away with a Smallbrook Studios kit for 'Hector'....

http://smallbrookstudio.webeden.co.uk/#/products-new/4569521214/%27Hector%27-Body-Gn15-Tender-Locomotive-Kit/3724081

Plainly, this model cannot be run on my eventual planned layout ('the train now arriving at platform 4 has destroyed the edging slabs'), and I cannot afford (in time, space or money) to set about buying more Emett-esque models and building the Far Twittering & Oysterperch.

So I'm considering making it a model of a model...

I always find at railway museums that there is at least one large scale model of a locomotive in a nice big glass-and-wood case; I always think how nice it would be to own one. What I think I may do with 'Hector' is to build him, then build a case for him with a length of 16.5mm track and a brass plaque on the front...