The title of this entry is sure to get people looking. Sadly forum management would not approve so you'll have to put up with these photos instead
"Lining by L Goddard, 1981"[/i]. We weren't sure if Larry painted it as well but if he reads this perhaps he may recall?
Now stripped of her clothes the Patriot is booked in for a BR lined green paint job and light weathering with Ian Rathbone later this year. She will emerge as either 45504 "Royal Signals" or 45506 "The Royal Pioneer Corps". Given her current state of undress shouldn't it be "Lady Godiva"? In the meantime Robin has entrusted me to give the loco a once over and repair a couple of locations where the solder has let go. As with the other 2 locos the standard of construction by Richard Hersey is truly awesome. It has real finesse but is also quite fragile in places. Some reinforcement and reflowing of the acessible soldered joints has been necessary to make them into robust layout locos. As far as I know Graham Warburton always kept them in a display cabinet and when you take a look at the last photo I can understand why. Other jobs on the Patriot whilst in at SLW have been to install a DCC decoder (a Zimo 621) and fit AJ couplings front and rear.
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