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That is quite a roster. Too bad you've hardly any LNWR locomotives on it and not much Midland Railway locomotives.

Say, do you reckon we can place our bets on them like racehorses at the racetrack?

Does anyone remember the Hornby and Peco trackplan books? They provide some helpful, useful and suggestive ideas on how to expand a train set be it a starter set or a big intermeditate one, they sure have a lot of them to offer. I mean, what starts out as a common circle or oval can turn into a gigantic geometric puzzle sometimes with lots of play features! However, I have seen the ERTL Thomas miniature playsets and the layouts for them are equally-inspiring. I once designed a layout using one as inspiraton but it never took off. However, it's your layout and you can do whatever the hell you want the way you see fit (I know I do). While my N Scale layout is prototypical, my 00 Scale layout is freelance and has that feel to it from a 1920s book or something like that.

1. I see no need to sculpt faces because I want them to have realistic features of locomotives. Instead, they will have normal smokebox doors like real engines. 2. I'm not sure what the program was used, but it would have to be Blender or something like that.

That's the locomotive I have been attempting to make myself.

It's been a long time since I last posted anything! Well, I've been inspired by four locomotives inspired by the re-done illustrations by Reginald Dalby of the early RWS books that I intend to make into model form. It's nice to design something you can actually draw on paper and translate into a 3D model just like the original Bob the Builder series which had interesting vehicle designs. A user on DA has made digital model recreations of the interesting loco designs so I thought about making model recreations myself. The big blue Mogul (87546) will be made from a Hornby Peppercorn K1 with a Maunsell N Class tender and modifications along the boiler and running-board. The small red Mogul will be made from a modified Hornby James body with the smokebox altered, chimney replaced, handrails added and modifications to the cab roof and such along with a Bachmann 3F 0-6-0 chassis and tender as well as cab interior details or a modified C Class 0-6-0 with extended running-board, modified Belpaire firebox, added pony truck and Fowler tender added on. The big red Ten Wheeler would be made either from a cut-down Tri-ang Princess body with a Bachmann Jubilee chassis or a Hornby Class 5 4-6-0 chassis with a Fowler tender; however, a Hornby Rebuilt Patriot with altered running board, smoke deflectors and steam pipes removed and single chimney added as well as a Fowler tender added is another possibility. The big green Pacific (Henry) would be a modified A3 body mounted onto a Duchess Chassis with internal bearings trailer truck and a six-wheel tender - I bought a streamlined Duchess tender which has then been trimmed at the back and modified. Those are all my potential model projects for the future. If anyone has a spare Hornby James body that they have with them, please PM me and we can arrange some method of transaction.

Bachmann should make an exclusive 00 Gauge model to help pay towards the replica being built.

I found out on the Bluebell Railway that there are plans to build an SECR E Class 4-4-0! Yes, after the building of the H2 Class Beachy Head, they are gonna build on a new class member No. 516! In fact, after hearing about this loco, that's where a song from Look and Read comes to mind...

Yeah, it kinda reminds me of the Midland Railway/LMS 2P and 3P 4-4-0s but with SECR/Southern flavour.

Following the successes of Tornado and Lady of Legend, it has got me thinking about new-build replicas. Hopefully, The Unknown Warrior should be steaming by the end of this year. I am, in fact a member of the LMS Patriot Project. After looking up various new-build steam loco websites, I was hoping to join the LNWR George the Fitfh Project as well as the LNWR Bloomer Project. Here are some questions I hope to share with you. What is your fave new-build replica steam loco you are looking forward to completion and why? Would you support it? Would you consider making a model of it? If yes, what scale? I'm looking forward to hearing what you guys think!

This is something I should try for myself one day.

Someday, I ought to try it for myself.

Me, neither. The LNER isn't really much my thing, either. That's why I don't have a model of Flying Scotsman because there are too many variants of said-locomotive in both model form and real-life. Also, I haven't even reviewed the model because not only people have reviewed it before, but also there are too many versions to choose from especially considering how popular the locomotive is and how many years ago they were released. When I do obtain Flying Scotsman in 00 Gauge by Hornby, only then shall I review it.

That's nice! Also, I am excited about your inside-cylinder tender locomotive!

Anyone who's read the first RWS books should remember these nice and simplistic locomotive designs. https://www.deviantart.com/realbon1983/art/Reginald-Dalby-first-red-engine-831520033 https://www.deviantart.com/realbon1983/art/Reginald-Dalby-98462-831520150 https://www.deviantart.com/realbon1983/art/Reginald-Dalby-second-red-engine-831520082 https://www.deviantart.com/realbon1983/art/Reginald-Dalby-Henry-Mk1-831519893 https://www.deviantart.com/realbon1983/art/Reginald-Dalby-87546-831520219 This guy on DeviantART does some amazing model locomotives! The first, third and fourth ones I like the best (those being Henry Mk1 and the first and second red engines). Think of how nice it would be to actually make and own physical models of them along with rolling-stock.

Maybe you could backdate them into SECR colours? Just a thought.

Thank you! Thank you all so much for your kind feedback! For my 800th post, I thought I'd give everyone a teaser of what is to come. The numbers still have yet to be added on, but it makes a neat model that would have been produced in the 1990s by Hornby Railways. That is what I have been doing to celebrate Hornby's 100th Anniversary. Along with two SECR-liveried 4-wheel coaches to compliment the model, I was hoping to celebrate my Hornby Railways memories as well and that's what happens when you make personal projects - it's celebrating the things that you love, taking inspiration from them and making them exactly as how you would remember them. Kids of my generation would be attached to Nintendo games or cartoons like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (sorry, Hero Turtles - ninja is a bad word in this country) or rock bands like Nirvana, but me, the things I would be more attached to are Thomas the Tank Engine and the Hornby train set (two of those nice things coming together like bread and butter which Hornby used to but not anymore, sadly). As a pre-teen and teenager, I still had a Tri-ang Hornby 57xx Pannier Tank as well as the Hornby D49 Shire Hunt and Hornby 2900 Saint Class models despite not them running in donkey's ears and have since then sold them off or donated to model railway dealers. It would be years before I got back into the hobby at the age of 15 and I did with some new models. I was still in secondary school and sixth form at the time and I was a freshman in college when I experimented with N Gauge (don't ask me about O Gauge because I may or may not be dabbling with it anytime soon generally due to financial reasons) and I still do both scales today, one of them in the form of a portable N Scale layout set in the Edwardian South East of England christened Crowmoor. And that is my history as well as taster of what is too come. I hope everybody likes my future projects and perhaps I should review some models myself. Let's see what the future holds!

Say, can you imagine short bogie coaches like the Tri-ang Hornby Clerestory Coaches? Imagine some bogie coaches halfway between the size of the regular clerestory coaches and the 4-wheel coaches? Just a thought. Maybe some short bogie coaches with Victorian/Edwardian flair to them like the early O Gauge models from the early 20th Century?

I doubt if it's still available, but it does strike resemblance to Percy.

Well, the paint I have been using is Reeves grass green acrylic which is just the right match for the SECR green livery. The lime green lining was also equally just about right. Anyway, thank you all so very much! Thank you, TangoOscarMike. I'm glad you liked the model. It's nearly complete, now.

Interesting. At least I have started to get people thinking. How can you adapt a TT Gauge locomotive into a push-along robust model train? That's what I'm thinking of doing. Perhaps the GEM kits can help or suffice...

Does anybody remember diecast trains and models? I do. In fact, some models (be they big or small depending which scale you model) could nearly fit within the RTR models maybe as background locos or rolling stock. When it comes to diecast toy trains, most people would think of the original ERTL Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends models. There's also the Corgi Hogwarts Express locomotive from Harry Potter which is rather nice, but unfortunately, you don't get any coaches for it to pull along and recreate scenes from the films, most notably The Chamber of Secrets. Travelling back in time, we have Dinky's A4 models along with coaches - at least we have some rolling stock for the locomotives to haul. Matchbox has done some interesting train models which are nice. The 0-4-0 tank locomotive is rather interesting, but the GWR Pannier tank engine and the Dean Single are the most interesting models based on real-life examples. It's just a shame the Dean Single and Texas American 4-4-0 have no tenders or couplings or both or anything. Come to think of it, these models would be the same scale as the Tri-ang TT Gauge models and years later, bodies are being made for every chassis in said-scale being made. If I bought some custom-made TT Scale bodies, I would stick them onto free-wheeling chassis and try to make them compatible with the ERTL TTTE models or find some wheels and bits and such and give them a push-along feel to it like the Lone Star 000 trains.

And here is the model at last. The handrails came from a Hornby loco body I had lying around and they were attached on. I know they seem kinda crude, but this was how some models were represented back in the day. The safety valve and tender will be the last items as well as the front numbering. Let me know what you guys think!