PannierTanker14

The 0-4-0 Electro-Shunter is nearing completion...

it’s too small to carry its own power, so a coach has been made to carry the Remote Control receiver and battery box.

A British armoured train, circa 1940.

A couple of sleepers...

A Hornby Dublo 8F with added steam.

(I do edits like this to my models sometimes)

A locomotive I’d like to acquire one day is one of my namesake:

a 64xx pannier tank.

However, when I first saw my first proper pannier tank at the Avon Valley Railway I only knew it as ‘Duck’

A test.

(the Lego is not permanent)

After playing Battlefield 1 (a WW1 first person shooting game) I’ve been trying to source a Char 2C super heavy tank in 1/48 for my layout. 

The tank itself would be painted in British operating colours since it would have been a creation of the fictional Riverside Works for the anniversary of WW1 and also because the tank looks awesome. However the last Char 2C was stolen when the Germans attacked a train in WW2 that was carrying the tank. This tank disappeared in Russia so for all we know, it could still be there along with the Zaamurets armoured train.

Does anyone know where I could find a 1/48 model of this tank?

All the stock with me now. More stuff soon...

the E4 runs as if brand new (even though it’s been stuck in a box for years), the 16ton mineral wagon is on loan and the Lima 4F is a mess (it’s frames do not fit it so I will make some more to make the  loco look as if it has no wheels and is being scrapped/restored.

An E4 is added to the new O gauge collection.....or is it E3?

It's not really an engine which I'm familiar to...

Another thing to scratch build: a Railway Gun!

(based off of the 9.2 inch gun the brits used in the First World War)

Anyone want a cool profile name?

I suggest ‘AutoTanker’!

ha aha ha ha

AutoTanker! 

Beginning in O gauge means the resurfacing of a (very) old and worn Lima 4F. It's taken me these many years to realise that the forward wheels are out of line and look rather bad. 

So before it lives it's life as a powerless locomotive, I need to build a new frame.

Luckily though I've got a Pannier tank (because of the namesake of my RMweb account ) and several different types of rolling stock in storage awaiting the completion of my new layout. 

It will be a long time until I can attend the GCR model events with this layout...

Ellis Clark Trains are going to make a B l a c k 5 !

I simply m u s t acquire one!

: D

GHOST TRAINNNNN

HA!

i’ve figured out how to use the RMweb emotes!

Now ‘XD’ is

Happy new year to you all!

A new year means new modelling challenges! I’ve still got to finish my diorama...  

How does one make a gallery?

i can’t find the ‘make a gallery’ button

I have no idea how to create an album on this new phone so I’ll just put up photos on the “blogs” area which works.

I noticed how people sign their replies to topics and blogs with a name.

I think I’ll do that too.

Andy P once referred to me as ‘PT14’ which I quite like the sound of. 

~PT14

I used an old Hornby GWR yard crane as a crane for an Imperial Navy carrier tank in the Warhammer 40k universe. It suits it.

I went to the Great Central Railway today, boarded the train pulled by 9F 92214 “Leicester City” and now the class of loco is on my O gauge wish list. I know my layout will not have the space for one but they’re so cool!

(photo by me)

I’m planning on restoring and re-painting this old 1992 “Nutcracker Express” that my grandparents gave me for Christmas years ago into a more realistic livery. I’ve removed the plastic plates that resembled snow to reveal the roof underneath. If this locomotive still runs, it will go toward the creation of a small garden railway... or a railway that circles the ceiling of my bedroom! 

I will put the process into a ‘topic’ as soon as I return home. I’ve had an idea to paint it in ROD livery and putting tanks on the flatbed truck that comes with it however I have not decided.

I’m still dreaming of owning one of these...

(Photo taken at the Ruddington end of the Great Central)