Well I completed the final bit of prep on some of the Locomotive fleet today, on some examples from a lesser railway, I don't mean the Southern, but the LNER.
I know I'm and LMS man, but Foster Street is based in the Northwest so even though I hate to admit it the LNER got into the area, so I have a little collection for the odd inter-regional train.
When Farish released the V2 I held out for quite a while, before I finally gave in an bought one, it sat in the fleet occasionally getting a run, but that was about it. Over the last couple of weeks its had a coating of grot adding and a little fettling to try fit it in with the look of a working loco, I think it needs a little more grot though.
Having a dwindling supply of older Farish chassis hidden away, like most of us N gauge modellers I try to find a use for them, because I couldn't come up with a better idea for them they sort of ended up as the NE copy of a decent engine the Black 5. So I have a couple of B1's in the fleet, one is on a old A3 chassis the other is on a Black 5 chassis but nobody has noticed yet
The first one was such a pain to finish in the apple green livery and made me seriously consider my sanity it was a such an effort. In fact I enjoyed it that much the second one appeared in the same livery.
What I do like are six coupled goods loco's and have quite a few in the collection but I did not have any none LMS ones, that was until I decided to build a couple of NE types, and knocked together a representation of a J39 and J38 which I then lined (I have no idea why )
So that's my shame is out there for all to see, my name is Paul and I have some LNER locomotives, but only 5 of them . On the bright side, they say there is always inspiration to be found from the most unusual source........ and I have an idea for the next layout a SCRAPYARD
Well Im not doing anymore prep work I think its done, so until next time, as ever Happy Modelling
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