Looking very very nice Adam. Bit of filth and that'll look stunning

Thanks, the process has already started - I needed to weather the inside of the cab before it gets stuck down permanently and took the opportunity to start on the underside of the boiler, the outside of the cab and the steps. No photos of this (yet) because it clouded over by the time I'd finished.

Adam

Adam, that looks superb! I like that a lot!

Adam, as above, looks superb! Also many thanks for the link, some cracking pictures there!

Just a couple of comments after looking at the prototype.

It looks like the hazard stripes on the front of the tank should be black and yellow, are you planning on addind the black?

Also it looks as if there's a witness of some lining on the tank close to the radius of the tank bottom although it could be my eyes deceving me!

Looking forward to the dirty pics!

Paul

Paul - I see where you're coming from, but relying on those photos for livery details is somewhat dangerous as you can imagine: you'd never know the tanks and cab were green from those pictures. The NCB in south Wales had more or less given up on lining some time previously and none of the Hafodyrynys locos of this period had any. It's possible the line you can see is a weld repair (there's a very thin sheet under the nameplate on the LH side facing the camera. The stripes were definitely green - though none of the shots available on the web make this obvious - and this is true of several of the other Hafodyrynys and Talywain locos:

Glendower: http://railwaysofwal.../p58786243.html

Ebbw (at Talywain): http://philjenkins.f.../p57169671.html - better photos exist - the front cover of Irwell's Industrial Railways in South Wales: 2 for example - which show it really is green!

And here's the machine itself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiPuZMROPik&feature=related (in a murk where you can't tell... note the sheep)

This shot is confusing since it seems the stripe under the RH handrail stanchion is a different colour to the other stripes (i.e. black rather than green), but unless a photo surfaces showing this a lot cleaner it won't be changed. George Woods' magnificent collection suggests all were green by the way:

Adam