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Hey there Flying Pig, if you wish to take a crack at producing the LMS "Hudson" yourself heres the plans for it below; Plus a 4-8-4 "Northern" for high speed Anglo-Scottish container trains. Would sure like to see how you could produce these in the style you've done above with the LMS mountain type I now some the measurements are unclear so I'll post them below LMS 4-6-4 Driving wheel diametre: 6' 6" bogie diametre: 3' 0" boiler diametre front: 6' 3" boiler diametre rear : 6' 10" boiler length: 20' 6" Firebox length: 10' 0" LMS 4-8-4 Driving wheel diametre: 5' 6" bogie diametre: 3' 0" boiler diametre front: 6' 3" boiler diametre rear : 6' 10" boiler length: 20' 6" Firebox length: 10' 0"

Another of my cut 'n'shut locos, this one is the proposed LMS 4-6-4 which I've heard being called the Admiral Class. LMS Admiral Class 4-6-4 No.6260 Admiral Jellicoe

After viewing these unique projects I've been taking a crack at doing some cut and shut jobs of my own based on locos that were designed but never built. This one is of a LNER 4-8-2 which I've dubbed the I class by Gresley in 1938 for the predicted heavier trains in the future albeit modified in the style of Peppercorn. This is my interpretation of a design Bullied was working on in 1945 for an outside cylindered Q1 Im also currently working on a proposed LMS design for a 4-6-4 Hudson based off the Duchess.

We shouldn't be giving up now and heading off to get specialist small batches made or kits. True it may not be quite what we wanted to hear from Hornby or Bachmann; Bare in mind though that this poll has only really got started not that long ago. What we should be doing is gathering together all our time and energy into proving to them that there is a significant market for Pre-Grouping Scottish locos in rtr form. Once we have the gained enough evidence to back up that there is a market. We should have a much better chance at pressing home our requests and in doing so; much like the Southern region models will open up the oppertunity of a whole range of Scottish region locos and rolling stock to complement the ones we wish for at the moment. I wouldn't take too much from them saying that they maybe too specialist. If you consider that they've produced locos such as the Clans, which in my opinion is a specialist loco considering it is rarely mentioned when discussing the standard classes and was only a class of 10 locos. When you consider that, our hopes for Scottish region locos may not sound too far fetched. In my opinion I've always considered Bachmann as being the more specialist of the two when you look at their range of locos over the years like the V3 tank, J39, WD 2-8-0, Collet Goods, Super D, 3MT, O4 etc. I feel they are generally been more open to the lesser known and "workhorse" locos; although Hornby has shown some signs of that too like when they introduced the Thompson L1 this year. As said earlier we represent only a small percentage of all the British Railway modellers. To get more support we should try writing to magazines such as Railway Modeller, Hornby, British Railway Modeller and putting forward our case, which should hopefully help gain more support among our fellow modellers. We still got a long to go guys but we shouldnt give up now, all this effort will pay off and we will finally be able to have Scottish region represented in rtr form.

Here is pic of one of my previous locos, which im currently modifying. The theme is a Scottish style 0-6-4T built for heavy freight and banking duties. The loco originally started life as the Hornby terrier. The body of the terrier was removed leaving the chassis which was great to work with as it has a level frame, so there was no need to mess around raising the chassis to the running plate level. The body was constructed from plasticard sheet of varying thicknesses on the frame, sides, smokebox and boiler cladding. The boiler was a 22mm pvc plumbing pipe cut to fit over the motor. The finishing details required making the smokebox door from modelling putty as it seemed the best choice to get the desired curve to the door; The handrails and coal rails were brass wire and the funnel and dome were purchased brass kit parts. In its relativley current rebuilt state below

Added my votes guys, a very good selection to choose from there. Fingers crossed this will help our case in getting rtr scottish locomotives. 19 votes in about 9 hours, at this rate this poll will definetly show how strong our request is for scottish locomotives. Its definetly certain the 439 is our top choice with all the 0-6-0's close behind

Hi everyone, im new member to RMweb. One of my friends here on RMweb, Tomtank suggested that I show you all the locomotives that I have built. Here is my latest loco, River Clyde. This is a freelance 2-6-0 based on the style of Scottish locomotives of around 1910/1920 built to run on my fictional railway, which I have called the Grand Northern & Carlisle Railway. The loco started life as the Bachmann Junior 0-6-0ST "Digby" and the remains of my Hornby GWR 28xx 2-8-0, which was beyond repair. I first started by removing the body of Digby leaving just the chassis. At the time I was considering using the same coupling rods used on Digby as the connecting rods with the 28xx cylinders and crosshead, however due to clearance issues I changed it to scratchbuilt cylinders and connecting rods from the Bachmann Junior 0-4-0ST. As this is a Scottish loco, I have used Drummond funnel and dome as well as a McIntosh style smokebox. The loco is constructed mainly with plasticard, brass, moddeling putty and polystyrene foam. What do you think of my work? Would like to hear any of your comments regarding my work and would welcome any advice that could make my work better.