Someone mentioned a few(?) posts back about buying a complete ABS L1 kit for £30 I believe. These are two of mine built before the Hornby one was available, cost a bit more than £30. I dug them out of deep storage, you should see my railway room and gave them a run round Deepcar, the first time they've run on a layout.
Apart from a short on one of them where the bogie is touching the frames on curves they managed OK. As they still need weathering (the Colwick L1s were generally a pretty dirty bunch) I've not lubricated them yet so should get better once that is done, although truthfully I've no idea when that will be .
It's taken me this long to work out how to get the pictures from my comapny iphone to the computer, had to email them as the iphone is very limited useage. Hate the thing by the way so apologies if they're not top quality.
One of them has a large can motor that I found in my oddments box, no idea what it is or where it came from, Ian Trivett called it 'a cement mixer with a washing machine motor'