Brewery Engine: 1 'Felgood'

Well, this little bashed about loco is now getting there. Need to paint it and add couplings.

Donald's Cab

Gaah. Apologies for the image thing on the last post. Photobucket is a bit silly ATM...





As you can see, work is going good. I'm happy with how it turned out. Not perfect, but not bad. I also want to get the firebox done today, so I can start on the tender.

Rusty: A first attempt and a win

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

Paint Pots & Queens

Well, due to Donald, I have a lot of work. I still need to fix the firebox, and get a face. I'm tempted towards the Tomy/Trackmaster face, but I'm still not sure.

Also, my Royal Train pack came today. Just for a starter, here is the Queen's coach:

Trainz Thomas Reskin

For those of you who use the Thomas equipment in Trainz, you may know about the whole fact that UKBL offered a lot of content back last year.

The models I had saved were the old ones, so I brought them bang upto date by reskinning them.