Bluenose, was originally thought up after watching a few episodes of TUGS, the show featured a tugboat who had a strict attitude towards other vessels and belonged to a naval base somewhere near Bigg City Port. The idea was to base him on a steam engine instead of a harbour vessel, originally, he was to be based on a War Department 2-8-0 that had been designed and built by Robert Riddles, but i could not bring myself to buy a brand new model and start painting over it, so instead, i turned to a second hand model of a LMS 8F 2-8-0 instead, although it was not really what i had wanted for Bluenose to look like, it has actually turned out really well.
The 8F has a good hauling capacity, and it is tender driven (although i may look into getting a loco driven model in the future). The colour is World War One Blue, it looks nice and although none of the real life 8F locomotives carried this livery during their working lives, it seemed and suitable colour for him, i didn't really want to be painting him the same colour as Thomas or Edward, i had thought more of a dark grey at first, but, i stuck with WWI blue.
The 8F has a good hauling capacity, and it is tender driven (although i may look into getting a loco driven model in the future). The colour is World War One Blue, it looks nice and although none of the real life 8F locomotives carried this livery during their working lives, it seemed and suitable colour for him, i didn't really want to be painting him the same colour as Thomas or Edward, i had thought more of a dark grey at first, but, i stuck with WWI blue.
Bluenose face, is basically the Bachmann James version moulded in plaster, only with the nose modified and the eye-holes widened, it looks great and suits the model perfectly, i used this method with most of my models, you will see more faces also on Arthur, Murdoch, Patrick and many other models i have instore.
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