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Got the train set wagons (see first pic) used and abused into some typical Darjeeling rolling stock by basically slicing the sides off the chassis and moving them out with dummy framework under and end strapping. No weight in them at all 'coz i don't know how powerful the battery loco will be.............i have since seen 2 photo's of one of these B class loco's streamlined! Could be a project for the second "Train set in a tin" i have............. Lower two pics show everything in red oxide, which is a pretty good match for the period i've modelled.

Loving your work and i like an Airfix 4F ! Keep thinking it can't be to difficult to splice two together to make a 7F..........

It got me thinking when you mentioned Y points and i went digging around under the stairs and found the last bits of my later BIG BIG set that my nan bought at a market. An 0-4-0 diesel and 3 narrow gauge tipper wagons and three Y points but no other track!

Yep, 2/3 running plate, lower cab sides, one pair of splashers, dragbox and portion of buffer beam. all mainly to give rigidity, all of tender chassis. Rest is scratchbuilt.

Some more of my Princess conversions. The Bulleid wheels are the original princess solid wheels filled with car body filler and sanded smooth with a teardrop tampo made from a pencil rubber and pressed on to the main green and then finished off with the stress holes painted by hand. Body and tender sides are one piece plasticard and a few bits of Kitmaster. King Arthur has a princess body filed to within an inch of it's life with scratchbuilt tender with bogies from the old TRI-ANG coaches, County class has scratch built tender but retains the"chuff-chuff" tender chassis and lastly the Harrow and Wealdstone engines, Turbomotive and Jubilee "Windward Isles", both old Princesses. The B12's are coming........

For those interested in the 2-8-0's, i have taken some better pictures, to show the underside as well....

This is the second Ratio kit i've motorised this way. The HO 4F tender drive is tailor-made for this type of conversion (and others). This one pictured (since sold) used the original wheels with a piano wire pick-up rubbing on one side, wire from a Tri-ang Nellie pick-up plate to brass bolt under footplate. Cut down, re-drilled, Lima drawbar for scale spacing. And lead in the original frame and boiler. Think the Hornby pin and drawbar system on their tender drives, simple, took longer to paint! On my remaining 2-4-0, i used Romford Drivers and Jackson pony because i got them cheap but they are far superior.

Got a day off so made some progress on the rolling stock.....

I suppose this should go in this thread as well, Lima diesel shunter to LNER Y10. and Ratio Johnson 2-4-0 with Lima HO 4F tender drive. Lima 0-4-0 tank engine to S.R/B.R. USA Dock shunter-ish!

Blimey, i forgot about my BIG BIG set! Must have been about 6 at the time. Yellow Hymek with black roof and red screens and a 3 part flat wagon with various loads, tipper wagon, red 16t mineral wagon and green caboose! I think there was a barrel loader and a level crossing as well. A strange set but very smooth i recall........

Loving that, looks factory!

My very first train set, i've since discovered, was by "Lincoln International" and was the TWIN TRAIN, double 8 layout. H.O. scale, battery operated, with a green tender loco and 2 carriages and a black tender loco with 2 cream and red mineral wagons. Very early B.R. liveries to my mind. I've since managed to acquire one! (See photo's) It's exactly how i remember it! Chad Valley home and distant signals, (O gauge!) came with it and i suspect it was second hand but cannot be sure as i was about 4? But, what a lot of action for such a cheap set! Then later, the 1975, Tri-ang Hornby, R.168 freight set from Tesco's Home 'n' wear department, with an Airfix engine shed, signal box and platform kits. I was in heaven that year setting it up in the back scullery by the open fire......magic!

I've just seen "Jintystein" in the title so, here's mine, based on a narrow gauge WD 2-6-0 usiing a badly damaged Tri-ang, Davy Crocket loco body and old Jinty chassis. Since sold on in the earlier cull but fondly remembered.

I love outside frames! And almost a drop on fit....but, you do have to shave the brush holders down to minimum to get the Airfix Truro firebox to fit over the motor and slice off the springs on the 09 chassis for the framework. A quick way to get an "Aberdare".

The fourth axle is simply a piece of hardwood, cut and sanded and super-glued to the chassis at the rear. Measure the length between the con rod holes of the half rod your going to use,lay on the chassis and mark a centre. Line a steel rule along all axle centres to true up your fourth axle mark and drill through using a bit, of the correct diameter, checking it goes through square. Two un-flanged, centre drivers with the screw hole are used and off you go. dont forget to quarter them the same as the other driving wheels and, if any tight spots, twist wheel slightly and/or file a SLIGHTLY larger hole in the rod(s). After many years, this has not failed in traffic! The 8F was the guinea pig using solid wheels, the 47XX the result.

Just a couple of my early attempts to try out my weathering techniques and a "what can you do with these two!". Lastly, a "Nellie" conversion done a few years back. Hope you like....

Here's another on a similar theme...

I like your style. Here's one of my early efforts......

Thought i would throw my latest Lima bash in the mix......LNER Sentinel Y10. The Lima diesel chassis is almost tailor made!

This is what i do to the ones with the crap bodies, using a template i found in a magazine and slightly reduced to fold over the princess boiler.......no burnt out motor for me!

Surely you can get it running? I've had two that were underwater for a week and they cleaned up lovely! Mind you, they do smell a bit like sewage when they get warm.....

Here she is!

Sorry the photo's have been a long time coming but i had to get her out of storage and buy a decent camera. She still runs well and is completely as she was when i first saw and read about it all those years ago!

No, just some plasticard false frames laid over the original frame to give it the proper length. And new firebox sides from card. Note the steam pipes from thick cooker wire to meet the cylinders. The bogie truck is standard. I just used the forward screw hole on the chassis and i used some Jackson Evans wheels i had lying around. The body of the 1946 LMS ,Plunger pick-up loco should show the cuts. Cut 1 is 4mm from the cab of one body through the firebox and cut 2 is through the boiler approx 6mm from the smokebox ring. get another (damaged/old) body and cut off the smokebox and the cab and glue the remaining boiler between the first two bits. (you are replacing the missing 2 feet) ,then fill and smooth. The mounting points to the chassis have to be packed out to fit but not by much. The LMS 1946 Loco was only done because both bodies i had were very warped and became the guinea pig for the maroon princess. (see below). An article appeared in an early Railway Modeller in the late 60's that showed precisely this. Hope this helps?

Believe it or not, this loco was an inspiration to me when i saw it in an old magazine, ( Railway Modeller?) around the late 80's when i was buying old back numbers looking for just this kind of thing as i was bored with jinty's, 08's, B12's etc and wanted something different.........