doilum Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 By my reckoning the were 507 austerity tank engines. 393 wartime builds. 114 post war new builds (15 rebuilds with new HE numbers) How many different examples have we modelled? Any scale, any period. To kick off, here are mine: Let's start with one that ISN'T an austerity HE 2414 (1942) the 50550 class HE2879 (1943) Diana HE 3168 ,(1944) S134 aka Wheldale HE 3180 (1944) Antwerp RSH 7164 (1944) " Sgt Pepper" 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les1952 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 (edited) OK, a few of mine (all DCC fitted). All see service on my shunting plank NO PLACE. First a DJM and EFE pair, two of the J94s that lasted at Darlington shed (51A) until the end of steam shunting there in 1965. 68043 waiting for me to re-crest it and both waiting to be weathered. 68023 is sound fitted. 48, pictured at NO PLACE's last outing before lockdown, Doncaster 2020 show, is a very early Dapol WD that has been through the wars more than a little. Originally a 68034 it now represents a ficticious one of those ex-BR locos that had had its high bunker burned off to allow coaling with a mechanical shovel. It surprised a lot of people at Doncaster when they discovered it was about 35 years old. It shunted the screens for more of the two days of the show than the rest of the stud put together- it was running well so nobody bothered to change it over. A pair of Hornby HARRYs now running as WITCH and RESPITE. WITCH is a more recent purchase, one of an assorted batch of four I picked up on eBay and DCC fitted. two were sold on and paid off much of the cost of the other two. RESPITE was fitted with the Geigl a long time ago and weathered. I added DCC when I built NO PLACE and it has just been away to Digitrains for sound and a stay-alive. Twin to RESPITE is REVENGE. This one has a satisfying wheel clunk just like many of the prototypes I remember- apart from that it runs like a dream. It may go off for sound fitting ahead of other Hornbys. I've got the tank top pushed closer together since the pic was taken- under exhibition conditions the gap isn't really all that noticeable. No.51 has an RT Models Lambton cab on a DJM model, sound-fitted by me, though the chip and speaker came out of an earlier loco sound-fitted by Digitrains which I managed to break by dropping it.... I still haven't got the tank lettered- I can't find a picture of the real 51 that shows it clean enough to read the lettering. In any case it is confined to the preservation side of the layout. It may yet go to Digitrains for a stay-alive to be fitted. There are two more sound-fitted DJM locos (a Yellow Peril and Mech Navvies 71515- a must have loco after spending a lot of time hanging my nose over the prototype) and a clean Backworth No4 and a dirty green Lancashire loco which aren't sound-fitted. Hornbys not mentioned include Backworth No.49 which is in the queue for sound, Cadley Hill No.1 and another high bunker J94. Lastly there is another Dapol one that I've just acquired and DCC fitted today with the chip that came out of RESPITE. More to come? Probably. All I need to do next now that Bregenbach is nearly complete is to design and build a bigger OO layout to run them on... Les Edited March 18, 2021 by Les1952 typos... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 (edited) Excellent work. Great to find another austerity enthusiast! Ten down. Just 497 to go ! Edited March 19, 2021 by doilum 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobbydale83 Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 How about some N gauge examples.... I have: 1x in the style of Andrew Barclay w/n2212 of 1946, in reality it ran with a different running number, as it was in industry, Hunslet built Brussels as converted to oil firing The maroon one is in the style of HE3794 of 1953, 'Cumbria' in its current condition, Finally I have RSH7086 'Norman' of 1943 in the condition she ran in prior to its current overhaul.... All bar Brussels are my own work. Brussels was a conversion done by a friend for his own layout, he also did the transfers and finishing touches to Norman. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les1952 Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 (edited) As well as all the OO ones I bought this N-gauge one off eBay for Hawthorn Dene and had it DCC fitted then improved the cab windows with an RT Models etch. The layout has gone but the loco remains. I'll find a use for it in a future project no doubt. Going back to the OO ones- one newby to report- another Hornby Yet another Hornby HARRY, renamed with the last set of Walkden system plates I have for a loco with original chimney. I can see me buying a Geisl ejector or two in case I get hold of another red one- I still have four unused sets of plates.... RENOWN has now been DCC fitted with a new LAISDCC chip. I might add a stay alive as it stalls on the points in the foreground. A deal of weathering to do yet. Meanwhile Hornby No.49 and DJM 71515 have gone off to Digitrains for sound and stay-alive. Les Edited March 27, 2021 by Les1952 typos... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 I forgot that I had some N gauge Austerities. About 15 years ago, I started an N gauge loft layout. It's still there but I sold all the stock, around 5 years ago. As soon as money and motivation allows, it will be ripped up and I will build a OO layout in its place. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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