Time to restart my blog. First item on the agenda is a long term scratch build. Hopefully it will be completed by the end of the year. I still need parts, so these will be sourced when I come to the UK in June.

Let's start with what I will be building. It is an ex LSWR T1 class, designed by Adam’s, 20 built by him, and 30 by Drummond, they differed slightly, I have a feeling I will be building a Drummond built one. It will be finished in Southern olive lined livery with an E prefix.

Here's what I've collected so far for the build.

The drawings are basic, but contain enough information to build, if used with photos. If anyone has works drawing if be grateful of a copy.

I have also got various castings, some of which will not be used, but until I get to them I do not know which would be best suited

I got out most of my LSWR domes and chimneys. But the two I most likely to use are the loose flared Drummond chimney and the large dome in one of the packets

The only thing done so far is the scaling of one of the drawings, I have printed a few and will use them for cut and pasting for cutting out the sheet material.

Hopefully there will be an update soon. But, don't hold your breath as I've got some painting to do.