Whilst Simon and Sean were doing there brilliant research found:

http://www.pegnsean....-a0-Pacific.htm

and:

http://pegnsean.net/...no4-rebuild.htm

I have been revising my model of Gordon MK1 to fit. Truth be told Gordon MK 1 (A) was just a paint test for me to test my air brush and blue colours in preparation for Gordon MK II, it was simply a repainted Gresley A1, the 1st built called Great Northern.

I want to give a heartfull thankyou to Simon and Sean for putting up with my constant niggles and lack of understanding in some areas concirning the research, I was privelidged to play a teeny weeny part of it and see/discuss things before they were published. I'm also acknowledge the research wasn't done for 'ME'! I'm just an extra in all this, but with all things RWS I try to find the most probably truth with things, and seeing as I'm trying to bring the RWS to life on film as I deem properly, I'm only really a modular layout away. (Planned) The model making I think I'm doing a good job of in terms of building the characters how they most likely would have looked.

I also want to thank Loey Machan and co for there research previous, I don't want you to think this is a slap in the face considering the hours put it, I'm still greatfull and regardless of these newest outcomes we still came a darn sight closer to Hornby or Bachmann to the true image. Gordon MK II will be a new bash. This revise of Gordon MK 1 was a bash of a painted A1.

I repainted it with a sable brush doing loads of light coats and then varnished it. I'm very pleased with the result because I was scared that a hand brush on job would look abit blobby, especially as it is literally going over the old paint job, thankfully and to my supprise it turned out fairly good IMO.

The 1st set of pics will show you the rebuilding, the second set will be the finished presentation. I have took these pics in natural light so they will look alot lighter and the blue on Gordon looks lighter than the darker blue you most often see him in regarding my models, it is infact the same colour and shade. For some reason the colour changes drastically in different light, if i take the pics in yellow light it looks a darker blue and sometimes even a clear purple..odd.

Whilst all the research was going on I couldn't realistically show you any progress as it was abit of a giveaway, thus I can safely show you now.

If you look at the final draft of the A0 contained in the 2nd paper released you will see that like the 02 locomotive the front had the curve, so I did an edit of a drawing, Gordon MK 1 will look very similer to this:

I manage it to bash the valve gear and make my own bracket to accept the lower running plate as the A0 drawing s show, was a super sized pig to do but it works fine, this is the same mod that I wanted to do for Henry 1 but could not, if you remember I had the bracket going up through the plate, not so now.

1st few body mods.

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Unlike Henry I've managed to preserve the running plate and most of the splashesr, but I had to do cut outs I'm sad to say. Good thing is this is where the lubricator handles go so they divert the eye.