E2 and M7 - some not very clean pre-Group Southern steam from around 1960
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Progress slowed over the Summer and Autumn, mainly due to me being busy at work. But I have managed to finish the E2, which has been lurking part finished in my box of abandoned projects since the late 1990s.
To recap, this is a stretched and lowered Hornby body on a scratchbuilt chassis. It runs very well, which isn't bad for my first scratchbuilt chassis. As you'd expect for a model that's been worked on for years, it's not quite up to my current standards in places, but I'm very pleased with it. And it looks like an E2, unlike the Hornby original which looks dumpy by comparison.
I'd quite like one of the extended tank E2s, but I'm not sure if I can face building another one this way. It was very hard work!
Also based on a Hornby RTR model is this M7. Unlike the E2 this modern model required next to no work at all - the main additions were the buffers (Gibson sprung ones to replace the weird Hornby originals), new screw couplings, and a renumber as Brighton's 30055. The various end pipes were from the detailing kit that came with it. The trickiest bit was curing a spot of distortion at the front end, where the Chinese lady in the factory didn't stick it together properly. This required a spot of Mek Pak to put right.
It's weathered as per photos of the real thing which show that the boilers got quite dirty, but the tanks sides were kept fairly clean by the shed cleaners. This was done with thinned Valejo acrylic paints and a paintbrush.
I must finish my Maunsell pull-push set to go with it.
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