BR (ex LMS) Stanier class 5MT 4-6-0 no. 45299

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BR (ex LMS) Stanier class 5MT 4-6-0 no. 45299
BR (ex LMS) Stanier class 5MT 4-6-0 no. 45299. A model bought recently from an auction in Cumbria. A chancy on-line buy. From the two photos on the auction web-site it looked to be fairly well built, but it’s original paintwork looked “play worn” to say the least. On collection (I was on holiday in Cumbria at the time) when I could hold it and feel the build quality, I was well pleased. The model has been built from the Tower Models kit, (construction methods very similar to a DJH kit) with Slaters wheels, a DJH chain driven gear and motor unit and power collection by the American method. The wheels and motion were very free running when turned by fingers, unusual for a gear unit of this type, I thought? Yes the chain was broken. Not so good, but at least I was satisfied that the Walchearts valve gear was robust and should work well under power. When back home, I stripped the loco down, the paintwork was stripped and a new Slaters GB40L gear and motor unit has been fitted. Now fully rebuilt and with superb quality paintwork by Warren Haywood, doesn’t she look good? I particularly like how he has achieved the change of paint finish texture on the smokebox. Warren’s choice of words for it during painting “this black 5 is an absolute belter, as good as I have seen from a DJH model”. A chance well worth taking.

BR (ex LSWR) Drummond T9 class 4-4-0 no. 30709

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BR (ex LSWR) Drummond T9 class 4-4-0 no. 30709
BR (ex LSWR) Drummond T9 class 4-4-0 no. 30709. A model which I bought part built at the recent Gauge O Guild show at Barnsley. Described to me as being built from the Martin Finney kit, the loco body and tender most definitely are, but the loco chassis most definitely was not and had been built fairly crudely from scratch. (Why? What happened to the Finney chassis? We may never know). Anyway the Finney parts looked to be well built, so I bought it. As luck would have it, at almost the same time, a Slaters kit for a T9 chassis appeared on Ebay. So I bought that as well. I built the chassis with Slaters wheels, an ABC mini motor and gears unit, also using Laurie Griffin castings where necessary and a static representation of my own for the inside motion. The new chassis was then married to the loco body. I completed the tender and loco body, again using more of Laurie’s superb castings. All finished off with a top quality paint and weathering job by Warren Haywood. Here is the result, in my opinion a fabulous model of one of the very last withered arm T9’s.

BR(ER) Gresley B17 class 4-6-0 no. 61669 Barnsley

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BR(ER) Gresley B17 class 4-6-0 no. 61669 Barnsley
BR(ER) Gresley B17 class 4-6-0 no. 61669 Barnsley. This fine model was built from scratch in nickel silver by Bill Davis in 2007, his builders plate is on the underside as provenance. With quality cast iron wheels by Dennis Leakey, turned to fine scale standards by Steve Ross, an ABC Mini 7S gears and Maxon motor unit and with power collection by the American method. John Cockcroft takes the credit for the very nice paint job. Bill is a good friend of mine and he prefers to build in multiples. He tells me that this model was built as one of four, all commissions, the others for supporters of Manchester United, Leicester City and Doncaster Rovers. 

LSWR Adams T6 class 4-4-0 no. 680 (John Brierley/Les Richards)

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This superb scratchbuilt model has just been added to my collection. Built by John Brierley and painted by Les Richards, these locomotives were the last to be designed by William Adams for the crack Pullman car Bournmouth expresses of the London and South Western Railway. This model, built using AGH wheels and a Ron Chaplin motor and gears unit, is clearly right up there with the other top quality scratch built models of the collection.

BR (WR) Collett King class 4-6-0 no. 6007 King William III

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BR (WR) Collett King class 4-6-0 no. 6007 King William III

BR (WR) Collett King class 4-6-0 no. 6007 King William III. This model is by Masterpiece Models and was constructed and painted in South Korea with DCC control with sound. The build quality and paint finish is second to none and the model, although second hand, is still in absolutely mint condition. The tender is fitted with a removable coal insert and fire irons. The cab has very realistic crew. Since photography the smokebox door has been fitted with an 81A (Old Oak Common) shedplate. This model is for sale. If interested see the Models for sale category of this website.

BR (ex SR) Battle of Britain class Pacific no. 34065 Hurricane

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BR (ex SR) Battle of Britain class Pacific no. 34065 Hurricane

BR (ex SR) Battle of Britain class Pacific no. 34065 Hurricane. This model was bought from an auction at Templecombe in 2022 in a very sorry state. It had been “built” and I use that word loosely, by a person unknown, probably now deceased, from the superb Martin Finney kit, although the tender that came with it was a David Andrews product. Nothing against David Andrews kits, they are superb too, but soon after purchase a Finney tender became available and it is that tender that the model is paired with now. Having a resin boiler, most of the fittings that had been superglued to it had become detached and some of the detail of the air smoothed boiler casing has slight damage from the removal of excess superglue. But with a little tender loving care, and a Warren Haywood paint job, I think I have proved here that a silk purse can be made out of a sow’s ear? With an ABC motor and gear unit, she runs as smooth as she looks. Now also fitted with a resin casting, produced by Mick Davies, to add blastpipe detail inside the smokebox visible down the chimney. This model is for sale. If interested please see the “Models for sale” section of this website.

BR(WR) Grange class 4-6-0 no. 6814 Enborne Grange

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This model was built by J.K.Stansfield of Colne in 1993, from the Malcolm Mitchell kit. The motor/gear unit is by ABC and the wheels are good quality cast iron. The pick-ups are of the plunger type and it all has been built to a very professional and well detailed standard. It was then displayed unpainted in a glass case for 28 years. After purchase by me from auction around 2 years ago, it was thoroughly cleaned and serviced to an excellent running condition by myself and then expertly painted in BR lined black as no. 6809 Burghclere Grange. https://www.7mmloco.co.uk/?s=6809&submit=Search

Now it has been purchased and will be soon going to a new home. The new owner wanted a model of no. 6814 as it was a loco that his father used to drive, so rather than commission me to build a new model, he has bought 6809, I have stripped the black paint and asked Warren Hayward to repaint the model in the 1960’s livery of when his dad would have driven it, saving himself around a grand and a three year wait in the process. Good sense.

BR(WR) Hall class 4-6-0 no. 4983 Albert Hall

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BR(WR) Hall class 4-6-0 no. 4983 Albert Hall. A model bought from auction last January (2023). This was not the loco that I wanted. The need to view the models available meant an early start and a long 3 hour trip North for a 9am viewing. There was a Masterpiece Models Castle class available, but someone else wanted it more than I did. But fortunately this Hall was also available and not getting the Castle meant that I was to be heading back home with my second choice. How lucky was I? Because this Martin Finney kit built model has been superbly built, with cast iron wheels on telescopic axles, the quartering secured by tapered pins. An MSC motor/gear unit and power collection by the American method. The original painting was quite good, but the lining applied by transfers was not good. So that has all been stripped, no remedial or repair work needed, and I have just collected it back from Warren Haywood, where he has made a superb job of a repaint. Albert also runs very well with no issues needing to be corrected. So a second choice Hall, not a first choice Castle, but at a total cost of a third of what the Castle would have cost me at that auction. Lucky me. This lovely model is for sale. If interested see the “Models for sale” section of this website.