Nile's Mostly Freelance Bodging Bench - Pre-Grouping Locos

[Nile]

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

I wasn't aware one could get the tender as a spare from Bachmann. How does one go about that?

 

All the goodies can be found here:

https://Bachmann-spares.co.uk/

apart from Bill,Tim and Graham.

 

 

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

It's an unusual position to be in, having to forward-date rather than back-date a model

I forgot to mention that, possibly a first. Rocket may be another case eventually.

[Nile]

Some more forward dating. When I bought the tender body from Bachmann I also bought a loco body, for a Midland 1P 0-4-4T.

When the model of the 1532 class first came out I almost missed out as I hadn't pre-ordered any. I managed to get a Midland red one (of course) and a LMS black one, can't remember why, must have seemed like a good idea at the time. It was always my intention to forward date the MR one with large numbers, but then I had another idea. Buy another Red body, forward date that and fit it to the chassis from the LMS one. The body ain't cheap, but a lot less than a used loco.

Time for some photos, this was the starting point:

Some parts were removed for re-use on this model (chimney,steps and coal rails) and others.

The main work on the red body was replacing the tank side markings with large numbers (press-fix). The bright hand rails were toned down with Tamiya Smoke (X-19). This has moved it forward about 10 years.

 

And now a sort of before and after view:

 

Side by side comparisons:

[Mikkel]

Nice work as always, Nile. You've made them look even better than they were.

 

"Pre-grouping will never sell", they said. Seems it will.

[Nile]

I combined these recent conversions with some Hatton's Genesis coaches for an improvised photo shoot.

A gathering of LNWR and MR trains.

 

Photo-bombed by a GWR saddle tank.

 

Recently renumbered coal tank No.747 has found some LNWR stock built from London Road Models kits.