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As is the rusty metal. Lovely stuff!

Thank you very much. The building is clad in Slater's brick embossed plastic sheet. I brush-painted this with artist's acrylic Titanium White (from a tube) and before the paint had quite hardened, used a fibreglass brush to abrade the paint back to the plastic in the places I wanted the brick to show. It works well and if you overdo it, it's easy to add more paint and go again. The damp stains, mould and general discolouration were added by dry-brushing with suitable shades of grot. Alan

End of the dayshift at the stone yard.

What a beauty!

Looking very fine. A great recovery. Those floor monsters are an acquisitive lot. I reckon mine now has enough bits to build its own locomotive. Regards, Alan

Brilliant!!

The next attempt used Hornby spares pack X8834W, Class 28xx 2-8-0 Loco Valve Gear Set. It's a bit large for a small 0-4-0 so there may be better choices. I can't claim credit for this one. I gleaned it from someone else's post on this thread BC (before the crash) Alan

I've probably posted these photos on this thread before but since a lot of images got lost in the recent crash, here they are again. I've had a few goes at crossheads on Hornby 0-4-0 chassis. The first attempt used brass rod, tube, scrap brass etch, a valve gear rivet and a bit of soldering. The cylinders are cut from the barrel of a disposable propelling pencil, the sort you buy in supermarkets in packs of 10. These are simply glued to the original chassis. Not very prototypical but it works! Alan

Still looking pretty good though, despite your reservations. I think it's the sort of loco that ought to look pretty scruffy. The attention to detail really brings it to life - the oil cans and the rolled up canvas screens etc. I like it. Alan

This is a wonderful image. I can feel the chill in the air!

Lovely stuff! Definitely worth finishing. All that milled brass looks reassuringly substantial. Alan

I hope it's not running as a 2-2-2 in that second photo. It doesn't appear to have any brakes either

A summer evening on the coal quay. Number 16 hauls the last load as the sun sets.

Great attention to detail Dave, all of which makes it very convincing. This is shaping up beautifully.

That's very fine indeed! Where do you source your various detailing bits and pieces Dave? Alan

I like everything about this loco! 10 out of 10 for ingenuity and craftsmanship. Thanks for showing us how you did it. Alan

Thanks Tod I can't claim any originality here. I picked up some of the technique from others in this thread. The sliders and crosshead are Hornby spares, part of a valve gear set for a 2-8-0 Class 28xx loco. I got them here: https://www.petersspares.com/index.jsp?searchStr=X8834W There are probably better alternatives out there - something a bit smaller, maybe. Anyone? The cylinders are scratch built from plasticard and sections cut from the barrel of a disposable propelling pencil - the sort you buy in packs of 10 at the supermarket. Alan

I did something similar, using a Caledonian Pug to make an approximation of a shunter built in 1914 by LMS NCC to work the dock lines in Belfast. I used the thinnest plasticard I could find to extend the saddle tank by wrapping and bonding this over the existing tank, at the same time extending it to a new fabricated front end. I had to re-profile the tank before doing this and you might too but the moulding is pretty thick and there's plenty to work with. Hope the pics explain this better. Good luck with your project. Alan

Just a thought. There is a fair bit of flex in these Hornby chassis and sometimes screwing the body on too tight can cause them to distort, which might make the gears bind. Alan

It's been listed as out of stock on the Knightwing website for quite a while now. http://www.knightwing.co.uk/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?cart_id=1579385735.177&product=OO-HO_Loco_Kits&pid=161

That makes sense... I think... I think thinking is where I went wrong with this

Thanks for the link PaulRhB. Very interesting. The text describes this loco as a 1-1-2-1-1. However it also says "the outside road wheels were 3' 9" in diameter, and there was also a rail wheel of the same diameter in the centre of the axle" so does that make it a 1-1-3-1-1 ?

Yes. If I was going there, I wouldn't start from here

Nice to see your article on this layout in January 2020's Railway Modeller Dave. Really enjoyed reading it. Alan

Fine work Colm. The Clyde Puffer really looks at home and there's a lovely sense of distance in those photos of 'Moonlight' at the quayside. I built one of those Scalescenes Puffers a while back and was very pleased with the result. I found that rigging the mast with blackened brass wire instead of thread made it less susceptible to getting knocked askew by careless elbows. Alan