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BR (ex MS&LR) Parker N4 class 0-6-2T no. 69246

Mick Bayliss Locos now sold 27th January 20265th March 2026

Found recently on Ebay, I recognized this model instantly as being built by my good friend and superb modeller, Nick Dunhill. I won the auction without competition. Nick built this model in 2003 using the North Star kit as a basis of construction. He doesn’t do anything by halves. Many additional details have been added, not to mention fully working inside Joy valve gear. The same year he entered it into the Gauge O Guilds “Guildex” modelling competition at Telford, where it swept the board, winning the big prize of the Chairmans Cup and the Marylerayne Cup which is for kit built models. The model is featured in the November 2003 issue of the GOG Gazette. Slaters wheels, driven by an ABC gear and motor unit on the third axle. The leading two axles are sprung with hornblocks and guides. Power collection is by wipers on top of all of the driving wheels.

Since purchase I have had to make a modification, however. Disappointingly after arrival I find that someone in this models dim and distant past had “improved” it by adding DCC control and sound. That worked well, but as no space was available in the boiler, that person had just placed the DCC decoder, speaker and stay alive with all associated wiring, in the cab space. Not an improvement for me, so I have removed it and the model works very well DC only now. A shame, I know, but I don’t mind my models having well painted crew in the cab, but not a ball of screwed up wires which almost filled the cab space. Also disappointingly the Ebay vendor managed to somehow take his photos without showing this “feature”. I left positive feedback as the model is just superb. I’m happy.

LMS (ex L&YR) Aspinal 2P class 2-4-2T no. 10650.

Mick Bayliss Locos now sold 24th December 202527th February 2026

LMS (ex L&YR) Aspinal 2P class 2-4-2T no. 10650. A recent purchase from auction and a lovely model with DCC control and sound, professionally built from the Lanky kit by Heather Kavanagh (see website), with superb fully working inside motion and Joy valve gear, Slaters wheels, wiper pickups and a top quality ABC motor and gear unit. Her brass nameplate “Built by Heatherkay.co.uk” is affixed to the underside as provenance.

BR (ex LMS) Stanier class 5MT 4-6-0 no. 45353

Mick Bayliss Locos now sold 15th October 202524th December 2025

BR (ex LMS) Stanier class 5MT 4-6-0 no. 45353. Very well built from the Javelin kit with Staters wheels and an ABC motor and gear unit and wiper pickups. Accurately painted in the livery that many black 5’s went into after nationisation of the British railways in the late 1940’s early 50’s and before the lovely LNWR style lining was applied on first repaint. Beautifully and skillfully weathered. No provenance of builder/painter/weatherer is known unfortunately. The O gauge finescale fraternity owe David Andrews for a great many quality locomotive kits. Many people wouldn’t realize that he designed the models that formed the original Gladiator range of kits and was joined by Alan Bullock, who later developed the Javelin range, the kits in which were also designed by David. At about the same time David sold the Gladiator range to Geoff Stratford, who continued to develop that range before selling it to the present owners Trisha and Dave Hill. David then concentrated on designing his new range of “David Andrews Locomotive kits”, until his retirement some years ago.

BR (ex LMS) rebuilt Royal Scot class 4-6-0 no. 46160 Queen Victoria’s Rifleman

Mick Bayliss Locos now sold 4th October 20251st November 2025

BR (ex LMS) Royal Scot class 4-6-0 no. 46160 Queen Victoria’s Rifleman. I was offered this model, together with a Britannia, both in a part built/unfinished condition that was in need of a lot of clean up work, (there must be hundreds of similar build attempts sitting in cupboards or wardrobes around the country), at a very reasonable monetary cost. My challenge was to get them both completed to a working condition and to a standard fit to offer on this website. Here is the Royal Scot, (the Britannia awaits his turn on the back burner for now). Built from the (in my opinion) difficult but very well detailed College Models kit, with Slaters wheels. I have fitted an ABC motor and gear unit and current collection by plunger pickups bringing the model to a good working condition. The amount of detail on this model, all soldered, is superb, eg look at the AWS conduit clipped along the edge of the running plate and the detail of the sanders. Both areas where most modellers economise on the level of detail. Now completed with a Warren Haywood superb quality paint and weathering finish, the model is available to be offered at a price that reflects its original cost to me.

BR (ex War Department) Stanier class 8F 2-8-0 no. 48774

Mick Bayliss Locos now sold 2nd October 202526th May 2026

BR (ex War Department) Stanier class 8F 2-8-0 no. 48774. A top quality model in all departments. Kit – David Andrews. Build quality – superb. Motor/gears – ABC. Power collection – American method. Paint quality – superb with red inside frames. Weathering quality – astonishing. Good looks – judge for yourself. Performance – very good. If I had the ability to produce this model myself (I wish) I wouldn’t have done it any differently. Bought from an auction (risky) and I cannot fault it. Even the slightly drunken lamp irons at the front are now standing to attention. Strange how I need to see photographs before spotting slight anomalies like that.

LNER Gresley A4 class 4-6-2 no. 7 Sir Nigel Gresley

Mick Bayliss Loco commissions, Locos now sold 10th September 202513th September 2025

LNER Gresley A4 class 4-6-2 no. 7 Sir Nigel Gresley.

This is the second of my A4 restoration projects. “Kingfisher” is already elsewhere in these pages and another, (with skirts), is on the back burner awaiting its turn. I bought the three original models (all from Martin Finney kits) around the same time and they were in varying degrees of condition. One (Lord Farringdon) had been dropped and the resin body shell was seriously broken, but otherwise good and to scale 7 standards. I then found in an auction in Huddersfield a job lot of A4 parts. Again all Martin Finney. Two resin bodies and two tenders (both corridor type) included in the job lot. So I then had the parts to get on with “Project three Streaks”.

As I said earlier Sir Nigel here is the second and has turned out very well. It was originally “Merlin”. Bought from auction, in well built, but care worn condition, with a slightly damaged tender. An existing client of mine heard about my three streaks project and asked if one of them could be made into an LNER garter blue without skirts, and this is the result. Now with a new identity and a Huddersfield tender. Paintwork is by Warren Haywood. At a cost to him of roughly 50% of a Finney7 professional build and paint, I’m hopeful that my client will be as pleased with it as I am.

BR (ex LNER) Gresley double chimney A4 class no. 60024 Kingfisher

Mick Bayliss Locos now sold 10th September 20251st November 2025

BR Scottish Region (ex LNER) Gresley double chimney A4 class no. 60024 Kingfisher. Built from the Martin Finney kit, with an ABC motor and gears and current collection by plunger pickups. Builder unknown (now deceased) who was a good builder, but didn’t have a clue how to finish off a top quality model to look at its best. Bought last year from Ebay as Golden Fleece, in good working condition, but looking very sad indeed. I have now stripped the original paint, made the necessary repairs and improvements and given her a new identity with Severnmill nameplates, all with the help of Warren Haywood, who has made a superb job of the painting and light weathering. Modelled in the condition as transferred to Aberdeen Ferryhill shed in 1965 for use on the 3 hour expresses to Glasgow, which extended her working life for 18 months until withdrawal in September 1966 and ultimate sale for scrap.

BR (ex LMS) Fowler Patriot class 4-6-0 no. 45511 Isle of Man

Mick Bayliss Locos now sold, My loco collection 1st September 202526th May 2026

A lovely model of top quality. Built from the David Andrews kit by Dave Murdoch, with Slaters wheels and an ABC gear and motor unit, with power collection by plunger pickups. I obtained this model as part of a swap deal. It was well painted in LMS crimson lake livery as Private W. Wood V.C., but whether it was that I have many lovely models already in that livery, or whether it was because the “LMS” on the tender had been positioned offset to avoid rivets, it just didn’t cut it with me. So rather than just move it on again, and because it was a very well built model, I decided to have it stripped and repainted, with a new identity, by Warren Haywood. “Isle of Man” was the only unrebuilt Patriot that I spotted in use, (most others were in store by this time), on the ex Midland line at Thurmaston. I am very pleased with the result and it reminds me of happy times.

BR Peppercorn A2 class 4-6-2 no. 60529 Pearl Diver

Mick Bayliss Locos now sold 30th August 20251st November 2025

BR Peppercorn A2 class 4-6-2 no. 60529 Pearl Diver. A DJH model, builder unknown, with a Slaters GB30R-3M spur drive gear unit and plunger pickups. A recent purchase from Ebay(risky)/Rails of Sheffield(very risky). They were selling it “cheap” because the return crank on one side had become adrift and the motion damaged. That alone is not a serious problem to me, but on arrival by Royal Mail, more damage was visible to a smoke deflector, again not serious. I didn’t like the original weathering. The long and short of it is, it was horrible. I considered sending it back as damaged, but a Peppercorn A2 is a rare beast and the opportunity arose to show it to Warren Haywood, worts and all. He told me to keep it, repair it, strip it and he would repaint it. “It’ll be alright”. Judge for yourself?

LMS (ex Caledonian Railway) Dugald Drummond 294 class (Jumbo) 0-6-0 no. 17324

Mick Bayliss Locos now sold 9th August 202524th December 2025