Here I am again, with the freelanced locomotives on the Broad Gauge.

Starting from the beginning how I came to this point, I'd have to tell you about @Annie's 4-2-4T freelance which started it all, and I'm glad for that because it just looked really good that I wanted to build

something like it.

Seeing how good it looked and it also being in a wheel arrangement I really like, I just had to build something like it.

But when I did so, the results were quite... bad? mediocre? I don't know either.

Maybe it was my lack of modelling experience at the time, because this was months ago. Looking back on it embarrasses me because of the many things I did incorrect. Or maybe because I just didn't put much effort in it as what I came up with was basically indistinguishable in my opinion.

My first mention of it was in this blog post of my freelance designs

"Kenstec"

Having "improved a lot" looking back on this model just makes me laugh, to list the things wrong with the model, the side tanks are too wide, very wide sander yet no pipework, quite a modern smokebox, also a really wide door.

In short, this model is basically old and looks off.

Time-skip to today, neglecting and procrastinating all my school assignments due to asynchronous classes, I saw that @MikeOxon posted about his progress with building the Small Pearson Tank

in the end bits of the post, he added in his 3d model of Dean's experimental single tank, which I've always found unique and beautiful in how it looked. Too bad it was a huge failure!

Having reminisced on my old model, I decided that it was due for a new one.

"Great Western"

Featuring "Great Western" a new WIP project of mine that basically acts as Dean's single tank but on broad rails.

Many parts of this freelance can be seen in real life locomotives such as the 517, Dean Single, Armstrong Class, and some other I forgot about.

The process was just me loading in the old file and removing everything except for the wheels, which I turned into real ones instead of just cylinders with colors. Bunch of searching for references later and I think I've almost reached completion since as of now I think I only have to do the brakes, coal bunker and buffers left, maybe some other small details too.

Really proud of how this looks like! Definitely a huge improvement if I say so myself.