Here is the completed article. Rusty the little Diesel, as portrayed in the Television Series.
Rusty is probably one of my favourites, as for some reason he is the only diesel I liked when I was younger...
Goodness knows why?
Anyway, I have wanted to make a model of Rusty for some time, and at Warley I got a second hand Bachmann 0-6-0. Realising it had bashing potential, I pulled my Ertl rusty out to have a look at motorising it. Bad mistake.
Ertl models are not to scale. The only use they have is faces, and even then they tend to be off.
I got a couple of sheets of Plasticard, and put together a body:
Good for a first try. I then painted it and looked at it...
Windows? Damn, I'd forgotten them. Time to fix that:
Mutliated, Rusty carries on smiling whilst I repaint him. The poor devil doesn't know what he is going to become.
He presto! Just needs a face...
Where is that Wind-Up toy? :D