The welcome return of High Level Kits caused me to order, amongst other things, one of Chris' 'Rustlers'. I've had an 4mm Impetus Ruston 48DS in various states of rebuild for the 35 years I've had it. My attempts to motorise it have been many and varied but I'd always been stuck driving only one axle. The advantage of the Rustler was that it drives both axles using High Level's usual high quality gears. I had to make my own 4-wheel chassis to fit the gearbox in but this wasn't too difficult using one fixed axle and one which rocks in some 2mm hornblocks.

I purchased another Zimo decoder, this time with a slightly smaller keep-alive. The fictitious 'mill siding' I'd planned for Clare might just have a locomotive!

I also had a chance to print up another batch of Cavan and Leitrim vans. These were quite fun to model up as each one is a little different from each other. It would appear me as someone with no knowledge of the inner workings of Irish narrow gauge railways that the workshop pretty much made it up as they went along. Wagons got modified as bits dropped off them and the variation seemed to depend on who was in the workshop on the day and what wood they had available.

So we have one with a low profile roof, end ventilators only and planked side doors.

But hey, why change both doors when only one is rotten?

and this one still has side ventilators.

And finally this one needed a whole new roof.

Four wagons made pretty effective use of the Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K build platform. There wasn't much spare space.

I just hope the chassis department can keep up with all this!

David