brightspark

Hi Gang, I have been told that I should get with it (daddyo). So here is my little blog. (No sniggering at the back) I am currently working on motorising an Airfix Mogul in EM. The frames are Comet, wheels Alan Gibson. it has a mashima connected to a Branchlines gearbox. This week I got the motor wired up to the pick ups. It is always nice to see the thing under it's own power. Although it does jerk along the test track. Probably due to the uneveness of the track and having a solid chassis and those Alan Gibson wheels that do have a tendancy to wobble. This week will be spent making sure that the pickups are hitting the wheels. The target is to get this running around the test track at ExpoEM in May.

Doh!...yes I meant to say Baltic Tank.. Hmmm Atlantic...no no too silly. If I recall the illistration showed it in Southern livery. I was thinking of a model as it was in 1960. Hmm a 2-8-2...I will have to get the book out of the library again.

Hmmm. I have been given an old Airfix Biggin Hill kit. I was thinking of making it up into one of the Brighton Spamcans. But the work involved in converting the body is not worth it comparted to getting an off the shelf body. Now what to do with it...two choices. Network Southeast livery pulling a set of NWSE Mk1s? Or the Bullied Atlantic from "Locomotives that never were"? What do you think?

Not a very clear shot. But it was a box brownie .