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Look forward to seeing how it turns out....maybe I should repaint some of my old LGB, I never liked the colours Best Tim

Well I haven't had that much time to do anything modeling wise but did manage a couple of hours today. I was able to finish detailing the frames with rivets and make thin slithers to hide the unsightly cut marks on the outside frames. I had hoped to remove these and rebuild them but a layer of araldite on the inside proved too stubborn. The cylinder has been given some extra detail plus horn blocks and skirts have been added similar to those found on a De Winton. I was able to make up a nameplate, only one mind as there is only room for it across one side of the water tank! The last photograph shows the locomotive striped after a coat of primer. I am waiting for a coopercraft quarry wagon to arrive which will be modified to G scale to form the tender, it’s a little too cramped on the footplate for coal. Thoughts are now turning to the livery which I think will remain grey with rods red, fittings brass and boiler black. I need to make some pickups and weight the loco for added traction which I hope I can get done by the weekend Comments welcome Best Tim

Last night I was able to carry out a little work on the boiler for the now named 'Rathbone'. I was able to find a picture of a De Winton 0-4-0 as a reference and then built the details up using brass, plasticard, wire and some Airfix 14xx loco pickups. The scrap box also yielded parts for a regulator and gauge glass. It still needs some more bits adding but I think it’s beginning to look the part. The pipes hanging down from the boiler also locate the boiler in the chassis locking it in position. Next task is to build some nameplates and begin some of the rivet detail; there is also a small issue of connecting the working cylinder up to the boiler with out having to remove some of the pipes. Comments welcome Best Tim

Back to work today so not much progress on the model front. I will begin posting the locomotive and stock builds of the 6mm 09 models once I gather all the photographs and get all the text sorted. The other distraction has been this G scale locomotive. Last night I fabricated a number of details on the footplate and shortened the boiler. A good rummage through my scrap box has revealed a number of details such as stop cocks regulator handles and the odd bits to build all the pipe work. If I get chance later I will cut the buffers out and build much more solid buffer beams. This rediscovery has prompted a look through a box of bits that I had put on one side for a future garden railway. I have 3 Buller motors with worm and gear sets for two plus a set of G scale wheels, maybe a scratch built quarry Hunslet on the way?

Not a problem, it's got some early images of the Welshpool and Llanfair and the Vale of Rheidol, they have very similar corrugated buildings. There are also some very early shots of the Welsh Highland and Ffestinioog which really show how much it's all changed. It is the boiler from the GWR crocodile wagon with the end cut off so the motor fits inside. I had a bit of a play with it this evening, I now have tanks footplate coupling rods and better frames fitted. It’s a hell of a lot easier modeling at this scale although I will have to add rivets, I best get counting!

This oddity has been brought out of hibernation after meeting up with an old friend and discusing garden railways. It's scratch built on a brass and wood chassis with plastic and copper additions. The gears and chain drive the single cylinder and the motor is hidden under the boiler. Somewhere along the line I have miss placed the coupling rods but these can be rebuilt. After having a little look at it I think I may begin work on finishing it off. It's a smooth little runner, just needs a garden railway to work! This is your fault James

Like wise James really great to catch up. I have just got out my scratch built G scale 0-4-0 verticle boilered geared loco, it was something I started about 2 years ago and gave up with. Now there will be a layout near me I should get it finished! best Tim

Well I must say it's been a while since I have been on here. With the end of Hockenhull Platts and after a brief flutter with 009, I have hit on something that I will stick with. The scale I am working to is 7mm on 009 track which equates to a scale called 09 representing 15 inch or 18inch gauge, give or take a few inches! After messing around with the scale and taking measurements from a range of different model figures the new scale of 6mm to 1 foot has been stuck to. This difference of 1mm enables the locomotives to be scaled down, looking correct on the 009 track, with limited over hang. This also allows Preiser figures to be used which are slightly smaller than 0 gauge. With all this odd scale worked out I have begun building a fleet of scratch built locomotives, 2 replicas of the Groudle Glen Railway Bagnal Locomotives and the others to a freelance Bagnal Esq design. The rolling stock is well under way which is a mixture of Groudle Glen coaches and Basset Lowke open carriages. Part of the reason for starting the Blog is to show developments on my new minimum space layout but also as a useful tool to document the developments. One of my great regrets is not having photographs of any of my early layouts or models. No pictures yet but that will all change over the next few days Best Tim

Looks super, lovely scenary, I have just ordered some similar materials to do mine. will keep watch best Tim

The Saint Looks great, I have been collecting parts to build one. I am going to go down the same route, I have a hogwarts castle all I need is some more time. I have been through the rest of your blog and think the work you are doing is superb. I too have to build my great western locomotives and then put them in a box. One day I hope to recreate Laira shed and a main line through station, ah one day, but I have just enough room for my narrow gauge will keep watching best Tim

Lovely work, the track is superb, I think I might have to have ago for my 2010 project all the best with the layout, keep up the good work T

Superb layout, must be one of the best on rmweb, thank you for providing the link, I liked the green locomotives are they scratbuilt and of particular prototypes? This has certainly wet my appetite. I can not get out of the house because of the snow so I am going to plan a small 7mm narrow gauge layout and get some orders in for some stock! truly inspirational!

A beautiful locomotive, The welshpool and Lllanfair is one of my favourite railways. Any chance of seeing some pictures of Bridgeport? Kind regrads T

superb layout, very inspiring, a real pleasure to read thanks