Goodevening -

today ive finished another 'withdrawn' loco which will join my two BR blue class 08s on the Laira scrapline.

50030 Renown - the loco is in revised NSE light blue - but for some reason got NSE dark blue cabs at one end -- nice! As its a withdrawn loco ive taken out the gears so its just free rolling , incase it needs to be shoved along a siding or something. Ive not gone too far with the weathering - as i saw the real loco when it has just been laid up, and it was still in pretty good nick externally even though a few parts had been robbed for spares.

Its my standard class 50 'job' - noses rebuilt with shawplan Windscreens body lowered onto its bogies - new bodyside louvres , speedo added to the bogie and converted to P4 using Branchlines conversion pack . Im just waiting for Hornby to release 'Valiant' now as a source of a sound chip as ive decided to add 50037 'Lusty' to my collection, as I need some more West of England branded 50s in dark blue (I have too many light blue ones with BR arrows at the moment)

tfn

jon