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BR (ex LNER) Gresley V2 class 2-6-2 no. 60860 Durham School

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BR (ex LNER) Gresley V2 class 2-6-2 no. 60860 Durham School
BR (ex LNER) Gresley V2 class 2-6-2 no. 60860 Durham School.Built from the Limited Edition DJH kit by John Dunn, and believed to have been very well painted by him also. Powered by the second to none ABC motor and gear unit, with Slaters wheels. Power collection is by the American method, collecting power from one side of the track by the tender wheels, the other via the loco wheels. A mini plug and socket alongside the drawbar makes disconnection of the tender very easy.

BR (ex LNER) Thompson rebuilt J11/3 class 0-6-0 no. 64375

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BR (ex LNER) Thompson rebuilt J11/3 class 0-6-0 no. 64375
BR (ER) Thompson rebuilt J11/3 class 0-6-0 no. 64375. Bought from a recent auction. A client had asked me to build him a Pom-pom. This looked to be a good model, and it certainly has prooved to be. I tried to save him some money by buying this with the intention of stripping the paint, improving it where necessary, and having it repainted to his liking. That plan backfired on me, due to my lack of knowledge of Pom-pom’s. He wanted a model circa 1920’s. The J11/3’s were rebuilt by Edward Thompson from the mid 1940’s, with piston valves and the boiler raised by 4″ to accommodate them. So no good for my client. Never mind, I have still stripped the original hand applied paint and repainted it myself to my own liking. I am very pleased. Built from the Gladiator kit. It runs very well indeed, on Slaters wheels with power collection by plunger pickups.

BR (ex LMS) Stanier Jubilee class 4-6-0 no. 45705 Seahorse

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BR (ex LMS) Stanier Jubilee class 4-6-0 no. 45705 Seahorse
BR (ex LMS) Stanier Jubilee class 4-6-0 no. 45705 Seahorse.Well built from the Gladiator kit, powered by a Portescap RG7 motor and gear unit, with Slaters wheels and current collection by plunger pickups on each of the six driving wheels. Beautifully painted, lined out and weathered by Warren Haywood. The inspiration for me to buy an existing model, strip the paint, carry out any necessary repairs or improvements, before asking Warren to repaint it, came from a trainspotting trip to Manchester with my schoolmate Mark Hulme. At Patricroft shed, we were pleasantly surprised (these were the days when most remaining Jubilees were stored wrecks) to come across Seahorse, with yellow stripe, nameplates and fairly clean. Well worth a few quick snaps with my Kodak Instamatic. I now find that the loco was a celebrity, used regularly on the Buxton services, hence the replacement (probably wooden) nameplates and clean condition. WOW, is an expletive commonly used these days as part of the description for a very average Ebay item. In 1965, we were well and truly wowed by this loco.

BR (ex LNER) Gresley A3 class Pacific no. 60093 Coronach

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BR (ex LNER) Gresley A3 class Pacific no. 60093 Coronach
BR (ex LNER) Gresley A3 class Pacific no. 60093 Coronach. Very well built from the DJH kit, with Slaters wheels and a chain driven motor and gear unit, she runs as smooth as a Rolls Royce. 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”. 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. When back home, I stripped the loco down and the paintwork was stripped. Now fully rebuilt and with superb quality paintwork by Warren Haywood, doesn’t she look good? A chance well worth taking.

North British Railway class H Atlantic no. 881 Borderer

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North British Railway class H Atlantic no. 881 Borderer
North British Railway class H Atlantic no. 881 Borderer. Built from the Ace Model Products kit by Mike Williams and this is what he has to say about the build and the kit on his website……..“North British Railway Atlantic by ACE Products.  I was asked to build 2 of these locos, one as North British circa 1918 and the other as LNER circa 1932.  I elected to build them together.  The tenders were built first, using split axles, uninsulated wheels and a perspex block isolating the frames.  There was no information on the tender parts regarding tool boxes, water gauge, hand brake, etc.  this had to be sourced from elsewhere.The loco frames were made up and the driving wheels added to check for square, so far so good!  I then added the trailing wheels.  Even with the elongated slot the wheels were 5 mm above the rail head.  was this deliberate?  A cunning NBR plan to transfer weight to the coupled wheels?  No – just another problem to sort out.  That is how the build went on, problem after problem.  Some easy to solve, others more difficult.  The instructions are poor, with wrong information and page 3 doesn’t even apply to the NBR Atlantic!  I had to replace some of the etches, firebox and smoke box.  On the tender axle box castings the spring wasn’t in line with the box and had to be cut apart and fitted separately.  Parts of the build – the distinctive lubricator and the trailing axle brake gear are not even mentioned in the paperwork.  These had to be scratch built.This kit is very difficult to build, particularly in respect of the amount that has to be scratch built.  It is not a good advert for the ACE brand”.

What I can add is that even though the kit and the build has caused Mike massive problems, he has made a superb job. He has fitted an ABC motor and gear unit, which allows the model to run very freely and smoothly. Expertly painted by Paul Moore. See more photos of this model and more of Paul’s work on the 62C Models website, or on Paul’s flicker page.

BR(ER) Gresley A3 class Pacific no. 60036 Colombo

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BR(ER) Gresley A3 class Pacific no. 60036 Colombo. Very well built from the Martin Finney kit with an ABC motor/gear unit, Slaters wheels, plunger pick-ups on the loco with additional current collection from the tender. This is another of my recent auction buys. It was originally well painted in BR green as Night Hawk, but the style of tender was not historically accurate for a loco in that livery. In the early 1950’s tenders of this style had the front end rebuilt and I could not be sure that any A3’s with the later green livery had the earlier un-rebuilt  tender. That is the reason why I made the difficult decision to strip the original paint, made a few repairs and had it repainted and weathered by Warren Haywood in the earlier blue livery. In my opinion he has made a fabulous job of it. In the near future I will have another Finney A3, Sir Frederick Banbury, on these pages, that has the rebuilt tender to make a comparison.

This fabulous model is for sale. If interested please refer to the following link https://www.7mmloco.co.uk/product/brer-gresley-a3-class-pacific-no-60036-colombo/

Furness Railway Sharp Stewart 4-4-0 no. 121 (a “Seagull”)

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Furness Railway Sharp Stewart 4-4-0 no. 121. This model has been built from the Taff Vale Models kit by that company as a display model of a Cambrian Railway loco, with Slaters wheels, a Mashima motor, fold up gearbox and wiper pick-ups on the tender wheels. It is very well built and finished, it runs very smoothly and quietly, as you would expect from the chap who had to sell kits on the strength of his display model. For whatever reason, it was placed for sale on Ebay and I was so taken with it that I bought it and have added it to my collection. Since buying the unpainted model it has been modified, most notably by the addition of non-working inside valve gear and motion. Now painted into the beautiful Furness Railway Indian red lined black & vermillion livery by Warren Haywood. Sharp Stewart built ten of these locos between 1878 and 1891 for the Cambrian Railway, but four were delivered late and for that reason were not accepted. The Furness Railway snapped them up and they became FR numbers 120 to 123 (all scrapped by the LMS by 1927).

LNER (ex GNR) C12 class 4-4-2T no. 7367

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LNER no. 7367
LNER (ex GNR) C12 class 4-4-2T no. 7367. A top quality model, believed to have been built from the Meteor models kit with many additional details. Built to scale 7 standards, with sprung hornblocks, fully working inside motion, Alan Harris (AGH) wheels and powered by an ABC motor and gears unit. Expertly painted and weathered by Colin Dowling (eastsidepilot.com) in the late 1940’s plain black livery. It was built on commission for the late Michael Brooks (the originator of Masterpiece Models) for use on his famous Monks Eleigh scale 7 layout. This model is for sale, if interested please see it in the models for sale section of this website.