You dirty old (Brake) Van!!

As an epilogue to yesterdays blog post. I’ve finally finished my BR 20T Brake Van. This was originally a bachmann offering, which has had the inner verandah altered. Bachmann produced it planked on the inside, when it should  ply. Since I took these photographs I’ve added correct lamp configurations for an unfitted train seen as …

exLNER Open Wagon

I’ve been working on this wagon for the last month or so. Picking it up, doing some work on it, and then leaving it while I worked on the latest Pannier. This wagon was built by David Scott, and was finished in Pre 1936 LNER unfitted dark Grey. I began by removing the presfix transfers, …

A Filthy LMS Brute!

I’ve just finished this leviathan, an LMS Garrett….quite fitting that this is one of the last commissions I intend to do. The main challenge is the fact the loco is in one piece, so handling wasn’t quite so easy. Two ariel photographs in ‘The Book of Garratts’ have shown an interesting deposit of coal debris …

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