I got bored with the constant stream of carriages and wagons. So I pulled an engine out of my roundtuit pile.

Just over a year ago I was able to buy a DJH Pollitt 4-4-0 and a scratchbuilt Pollitt single. The 4-2-2 is a lovely piece of work, the 4-4-0 is also very nice but for some bizarre reason the original owner had decided that a metallic light green was exactly the right colour for GCR green.

It had to go...

The physical changes I have made to the model took all of an hour- a new cast brass chimney and some coal rails to the tender- and now a repaint into the proper GCR livery is well underway.