medion694

Don't forget TMC's NER/LNER/BR G5 0-4-4T, which ran to Kelso, a noble Scottish town, and also Duns, calling at Reston. These may be outside your sphere of operation - they almost certainly are - but they are still in Scotland!

 

John Storey

Probably one for the G5 topic, but several G5s were also allocated to sheds in North East Scotland (Kittybrewster and Keith) in early BR days prior to withdrawal, so definitely in Scotland!

So between the J36, 812 and G5, my North East Scotland layout is going to get pretty busy :locomotive:good time to be a Scottish steam modeller!

and as regards the boiler liing on the d40, you would be better just putting the lining transfers directly onto the boiler, if you think on the real thing the boiler bands were wafer thin and we always make them too thick (i know that on a cast boiler they are more difficult to get rid of) but you really would be better just to put the lining directly onto the boiler. it will give a better finish.

 

gary

Thanks Gary, I might just do that. I used card because of how thin the boiler bands appear, but it ended up backfiring.

As for the J36, the pannier chassis has increasingly annoyed me too as the standard of my kit building got better. I think I could probably tackle the proper chassis now instead of using rtr and attempt to 'un-bash' the body.

Adam

After viewing some of the spectacular locos on this thread I thought I might share some of my meagre kit-built Scottish locos. Apologies for the poor photo quality.

An N15/1 built from a 52F kit as 69224 during its brief stint at Keith shed. New addition to the fleet with only the smokebox plate still to do.

A D40 from a pdk kit built as 62277 "Gordon Highlander" also of Keith shed (minus the name plates). My favourite class of loco, but it needs its poor wonky boiler bands redone (made the amateur mistake of using card for the boiler bands which disintegrated when using the waterslide transfer lining!)

K2 61783 "Loch Shiel" again from Keith Shed. My second favourite loco and built from a nu-cast kit. However I need to find a way of toning down the running gear...

My attempt at a J36 from a pdk kit heavily butchered to fit on a Bachmann pannier chassis. Not quite as convincing as Kingfisher's astounding kit/scratchbuilt effort (note the horible boiler deformation between the centre splashers to fit the chassis motor!). I'm thinking of taking it to pieces and reconstructing it with a proper chassis.

Lastly a Caley 0-6-0T refurbished and re-detailed from a secondhand Wills kit. A good runner, but can't go round my second radius curves!

I'm currently building a C16 from a Cotswold kit so will post when that is completed. Nice to see so many different Scottish locos on this thread, lets keep it up!

Adam