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YES! Looks fantastic. Lovely finish too. Go on, please post some more pics of it

Yes! Love the stock progress so far. The 3 planks are also making appearances with my FQC.

Liking this a lot so far.

I did try a Bachmann 4575 chassis but wasn't happy with it so in the end I've switched to using a modern Hornby Terrier one and cut down the bunker I have been #blessed with the arrival of some tenders so can move on with the 4-4-0 - hoping to put the battery and probably the receiver in the tender. Cutting the bunker off has made the loco rather front-heavy so I think it needs lead adding to the firebox end, probably a whitemetal crew as well (another reason to use the plastic Hornby running board in a 4-4-0 conversion, to have less nose weight).

The original 3 (built by Kitson) were essentially a main line design, being mechanically the same as the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway 0-6-2T locos (of which 5 went to the Hull & Barnsley as the LD&EC ran out of money). The first lot became LNER class N6 (as they had been rebuilt with belpaires) and the H&B ones N11 (retained original round top fireboxes). Apart from the cab, LHJC 29/30/31 were almost identical to these. The Robert Stephenson 0-6-2Ts which followed were designed specifically for the LHJC (I believe) but probably drew upon the experience of the Kitsons.

Thank you! You can PM me if you want but it might be a better idea to start a thread about it so you can share with more people than just me?

Well it did make me late for work this morning! Not sure if I should tell my friends their new house is literally on top of the old colliery....

Fancied some modelling today after having got a few big tasks out of the way. Firstly on the 4-4-0 a little strip of brass trim was added to the firebox to disguise the join. Then I started to refit details so it now looks like this while it awaits its tender. Thanks to some of @Ben Alder's bashing, I now have some more donor parts. Here is an Oxford boiler and cab upper with a Hornby running board which is the combo I would use were I to make another 4-4-0 as both parts are plastic and (although would need strengthening) would avoid the horrible task of cutting and grinding and filing the diecast metal. Meanwhile the 2-6-2T takes shape, the boiler being extended as before. Tank extensions made up from styrene, and this Belpaire firebox is in the process of being grafted on. Current state of play now the windows are being filed and filled. LOTS of filler and sanding still to do.

It's on the Hattons Andrew Barclay chassis

Awesome! How did it manage on the incline?

Slice goes the razor saw. With a blob of araldite the bunker is thus shortened. The chassis I have settled on is the new style Terrier one giving this 2-6-2T 4' driving wheels. Height checking with its stablemate. The cylinders are just black tacked on and will need the mounts adjusting to enable them to be mounted to the chassis. My plan is that the central driver will sit in the same place as on the 4-4-0, so if the cylinders are in line with the smokebox the conrod should be the right length. I used the dremel to carve out space for the wheels under the running board. The Adams Radial style square windows will not be staying, but I am undecided on keeping the rounded bunker corners or remaking them with sharp corners as with the Aussie loco.

Yes! Love the bell sound.

Thanks Dave. There's an absolutely fantastic bit of film about the last days of steam at Sydney's Darling Harbour which features some spectacularly violent shunting in action, I'm not sure if knuckle couplers are more resistant to the shock or not but it made me wince!

FROM THE ARCHIVES Colour footage of various locos engaged in shunting at Tidmouth Docks in the early 1960s. Visible on the quayside are USATC S100 'Marcus', Bagnalls 'Liberty' and 'Atlantic' of the Tidmouth Docks Authority. North Western Railway 'Perseus' also makes an appearance, handling a private owner wagon rather roughly. In reality this is a bit of shunting filmed on Bob Edwardes' marvellous M Shed (Bristol) diorama at the Thornbury Model Railway Show last weekend. The locos were being run on a mix of DC and RC.

Magnificent work Sam!

I especially like the Ivatt-ised Stanier 4MT!

You are a naughty cheeky boy putting ideas like that in my head. BUT I think I'm set on doing a 2-6-2T inspired by the NSWGR 4-6-4T C30 class locos (also Beyer Peacock products). The only thing I kind of regret is that BP in this period didn't much go in for wagon top fireboxes and I should really have done a Belpaire. Maybe I can explain this as customers' choice? Perhaps it will give me the opportunity to do another version of the 4-4-0 body with an upgraded Belpaire boiler later in life. I think the prairie bunker does need cutting down, though. Pic from facebook https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=994965391063453&set=pcb.4585592948168268 Pic from UoNA https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/3700

The 50550 has 4' driving wheels, the Austerity has 4' 3". You might have the inside dia. without the tyre? A cheap way of building a 50550 is to put Dapol Terrier wheels onto the Dapol Austerity chassis (same fitment) to get the smaller diameter. As chronicled by yours truly here: As a side note, the 50550 was a development of the 48150 which was the same wheelbase and 4' wheel size as the 50550 but with a shorter saddle tank which did not cover the smokebox. Some were built with Austerity cabs and some with 50550 style cabs, and some with hybrid cabs. The sole survivor 'Jessie' has always had the Austerity style cab. The 48150s were in turn developed from an 18" 0-6-0T built for the Pontop and Jarrow Railway. This was a side tank with a belpaire boiler (apparently due to Hunslet simultaneously building 3F Jinties with belpaires for the LMS) but same dimensions as the 48150.

Were the Woolwich N Class 'kits' part of the same initiative?

Not design, but they did build locos designed in-house by the Big Four, for example the Jinties and the 5700 Panniers.

I think it may appear in the Hardys Hobbies range at some point. Here's an update on the Beyer-Peacock 4-4-0. After considering every RAL colour under the sun I settled on green, how original. Following HonestTom's tip about 'Trimits' these were fitted with Roket Card Glue to the cab front. I've glued the body together now - the eagle-eyed will note that the running board snapped in front of the cab when I was cutting down the forward tanks. As such the boiler is now structural as the running board is araldited together along the break, and the cab and boiler are araldited together and in turn fixed to the running board. Hopefully it won't break again. Meanwhile thanks to @BlueLightning another bodyshell arrived. It lasted all of 30 seconds before being dismantled. The splashers have been filed flat on this one. The idea here is to have two locos that were ordered to do different jobs but have shared boiler and cylinders and clearly by the same builder. I tested an Electrotren chassis under it but the wheels are too small and the wheelbase too short, so another option will be needed. I'd like it to be a 2-6-2T but that rear overhang is substantial.

How warm was the can Martin? I have taken to running the can under the hot tap for a bit before spraying as I have had a lot of issues with varnish blooming, sometimes also down to trapped moisture on the model if I haven't let it dry for long enough.

Shai-hulud? Lovely modelling.

Heck, that's good.

I'm really glad I didn't get the CR livery version now, because to paint those lined frames black would get me lynched!