Nick Mitchell

I mainly model the late LMS / early British Railways period in 2mm Finescale.

A layout based around Healey Dell viaduct and Broadley station on the Rochdale to Bacup branch is (still!) in the planning stages.

I seem to spend most of my modelling time at the moment building locomotives.

 

Locomotive Projects I am currently working on:

Complete and a the final detailing/painting stage:

• Hunslet 16" 0-6-0ST (from reduced Judith Edge Kits etches) - construction thread
• LMS 0-6-0 Diesel shunter (from the 2mm Scale Association kit) - Featured in Model Railway Journal 278 / 279
• ex-LMS Jubilee 4-6-0 (PECO body with replacement etched Nigel Hunt chassis)
  • Thread discussing building the chassis
  • Tutorial videos on YouTube - winner of the 2mm Association Geoff Balfour Memorial Award 2019
• Another LMS Jubilee - this time a conversion of the Graham Farish model
  • Posts updating progress in the 2mm Workbench thread: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5a, 6, 7
• ex-LMS Princess Royal 4-6-2 (from the Nigel Hunt Kit) - Currently in the paint shop (see below)

 

Under Construction at an early stage:

• ex-LNWR "Cauliflower" 0-6-0 (from shot-down London Road Models kit)
• ex-L&Y large-boilered 0-8-0 (from Nigel Hunt kit)

 

A selection of completed (or nearly completed) models:

 

LMS Fowler 2-6-4T 2323

Built from the Nigel Hunt kit (for which I wrote the instructions) - construction photo-sequence thread

Winner of the 2mm Association AGM Photo Competition - Scratch and kit built locomotives category 2023

Winner of the 2mm Association Groves Trophy 2023

 

 

 

Ex-LNWR 0-6-2T "Coal Tank" 27619

Built from shot-down London Road Models etches - see this thread

Joint Winner of the 2mm Association Members' Choice Cup 2022

 

 

 

 

 

BR Std. 9F 92008

Built from the Fence Houses Model Foundry kit, with additional details and DCC-controlled reversing valve gear.

Thread discussing the final stages of the build.

Winner of the 2mm Association Groves Trophy 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some shots of 92008 hauling a rake of 30+ etched hoppers (built by Chris Mills) across Victoria Viaduct on Bob Jones' superlative Fence Houses layout at York Show in 2019:

 

 

 

 

LMS (ex-L&Y) Radial Tank 10735

Built from the Nigel Hunt kit, for which I wrote the instructions.

Winner of the 2mm Association Chairman's Trophy 2018

 

 

 

 

ex-WD Austerity 2-8-0 90632

Converted to 2FS from the Graham Farish model. 2mm Association tyres fitted to the Farish wheels, and valve-gear replaced with components adapted from etches by Nigel Hunt.

Winner of the 2mm Association Ballantine Quaich 2015

Featured in Model Railway Journal 262 - article winner of the Geoff Balfour Memorial Award 2018

 

 

 

LMS Princess Royal 4-6-2 46210 Lady Patricia - Under construction

Built from the Nigel Hunt kit. The valve gear has been modelled in forward gear.

 

 

Painting in progress...

 

Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T 41271

Detailed and weathered Dapol body fitted to a finescale chassis built from the Nigel Hunt Kit.

 

 

Hunslet 16" 0-6-0ST No. 7 Beatrice (as preserved at Embsay) - under construction

Built from the Judith Edge kit.

 

 

An almost complete Fowler 2-6-4T toys with an almost complete Catfish wagon...

 

 

A Selection of wagons built from kits from various sources and utilising components from the 2mm Association range.

 

See my Wagon thread here.

 

This Shock absorbing wagon was written up in the October 2011 2mm Magazine. The plastic body is originally from Mill Lane Sidings, and the underframe from parts of several Association kits with added detailing.

 

This BR Plate wagon is a Stephen Harris kit:

 

A Gannet ballast hopper from the Kestrel brass release of the shot-down Falcon "Pocket Money Kit"... a swine to build!

 

Sturgeon A - Another Stephen Harris kit:

 

Another Plate - this time an LMS design on ex WW1 underframe. It has its origins in a kit that was never marketed. Read about it in the Feb 2020 2mm Magazine,

 

2mm Association plastic BR van body kits, mounted on etched underframes:

 

One of the first 2mm wagons I built. The body is a grossly over-scale (even for 1:148) N Gauge society kit on an Association etched chassis:

 

2mm Association "mixed media" kit from around the time I joined the association.

 

BR All-steel High is another of Stephen Harris' wonderful kits:

 

More 2mm Association plastic bodied kits - another BR 1/208 van and an ex-LMS cattle wagon - complete with passengers:

 

My latest wagon, a Midland Deep Case truck. Bruce Cook designed the etched kit simply because I suggested to him that it couldn't be done! The story behind it appears in the current (April 2024) 2mm Magazine: