As you can tell by my profile name, I rather like Churchward’s prototype Star, No. 40. I like the straight frames, the non-standardness and the overall look. For this reason I foolishly endeavoured to make my own out of an old Airfix Castle, in the style of Stefan’s.
I took the body off the chassis so I could chop it up.
I removed the front buffer-beam because it was broken -- I will be making a new straight-drop one out of styrene once I have some. I also yanked out the handrails for re-use. Currently in the post is a second-hand 28xx body shell which I will use to replace the boiler. See you all when that arrives...
Alf