RedGemAlchemist

I try my best.

The one that comes to mind immediately: disconnect the front and rear drivers. Replace with leading and trailing wheels. Add outside cylinders and connect piston rod to middle driver to turn it into a 2-2-2. Remove side tanks. Remodel boiler sides to turn into 2-2-2 well tank.

Why do you think most of my models are running on ancient Triang chassis? Because they're dirt cheap! (Also why Peter still sits as just a tank and smokebox on the shelf above my workbench.)

Can think of a few ways actually...

Also, I suggest an ancient, temperamental engine from the line's early days named Albert Malich?

There is one thing stopping that with the KLR. My finances.

D*mn it sem, stop tempting me! Also it'd probably be more modified than that, in true KLR fashion. Wanderer is quite on its own in the case of being still of its original design, in terms of locomotives from major railways.

Oh. Yeah, that's a good point actually, sorry.

A Terrier? In Norfolk? BLASPHEMY! (Says a man running a Norfolk railway with a 14xx on it.)

Maybe that's why (according to my writeup) Peter was sold by the WNR to the KLR. Too fast for the WNR?

To this, I quote my usual motto when it comes to railway modelling: if the end result looks good, who cares how you got there? Great work Nearholmer! Looks good either way!

Ooh! Ooh! Do the Kelsby Light Railway next! Great job. Looks like they could genuinely be for real railways. That's awesome!

Yeah. I've had the Nellie that became Bulldog for years, ever since I was a little boy, along with the two four-wheelers on the branch train and a couple of the wagons. Mine is just a little Colonel Stephens-style light railway out in the East Anglian countryside, but in the present day - you've probably already seen the timeline I posted last page. Born and raised in Norfolk and love it too much to leave. I'd always wanted an Airfix 14xx though - glad I now have Wanderer and have fulfilled that childhood ambition. Need to make a test circuit. Not totally sure Bulldog works. I do fortunately have a spare motor for it that I know works, just in case.

Either way, I'd expect before it apparently lost all of its paint it was a very pretty coach.

Good luck!

This is them after the Alchemist treatment. They are Triang ones. I liked the colour scheme anyway so I just painted the roofs a lighter grey (was going to have them go white but decided not to; I'd also thought of painting them from blood-and-custard into cream and emerald. Need to get a brake coach to go with them.) The suburban brake in the branch train is also Triang, as is the horsebox (which the KLR converted into a luggage van).

Right, for those of you who wish to keep track of what the KLR has in stock atm: Locos, from bottom clockwise: Bulldog, Wanderer, Wild Rover, Mastodon, Geoffrey Lake Passenger stock, from bottom to top: branch line train, 3 blood and custards Freight stock, from bottom to top, left to right: 9 open wagons of various sizes, 3 livestock vans, 1 box van, 1 brake van, breakdown crane And that's everything I have for the KLR (complete anyway) so far. Hopefully more to come soon!

Not here. Cloudy with patches of sun, no snow whatsoever.

Duly noted. Thank you.

Small update: painted up that little GWR 4-plank I bought up in Norwich last week into the usual generic sort of paint scheme used for KLR ones. Decided to keep the London Bricks 6-plank as it was because I happen to like how it looks. Got to have some visually interesting ones here and there.

Yeah. What can I say? I'm proud of how the big black (formerly red) beast turned out. If you want the real elephant in the room, I should mention Peter, work on which has been stagnant for nearly a month because I still can't find a cheap Hornby or Dapol L&Y Pug.

Interesting. Trying to work out what will be my own No.7 at the moment myself. And my own Narrow Planet plates for Bulldog, Wild Rover, Mastodon and Geoffrey Lake are still floating in the ether. Hopefully won't be too long. Also, impulse buys do sometimes get great results. Mastodon being my own example of course. Of course longtime readers of my Workbench like yourself will be aware of the Saga of Mastodon.

I know it's a bit small but I still can't get over how nice that 4-4-0 looks.

Ah right. Sorry, my mind works exclusively in OO as... well, that's exclusively the scale I work in.

Wow. Those are some small wheels for a loco that size.