Stanley the Tank Engine - Work In Progress!

Since the completion of Whiff not to long ago, i have found that scratchbuilding Thomas The Tank Engine characters has become something that i am really proud of, Harvey the Crane Engine, Silly Billy and Whiff the Rubbish Collection Engine are just a few of the models that have been made completely from scratch using plasticard sheets and 4mm (OO Gauge) scale model drawings.

My newest project to be done using this material is Stanley from the Great Discovery movie, the body has been partly built, starting as always with the cab and running plate before moving onto the boiler and smokebox.
The cab has an angled coal bunker, which can also be seen on the real Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 locomotives, so far, the cab looks great, the only thing left to do with the cabnow is to add the rear-facing wall which the coal will hold later on.

The running plate has also been made from plasticard, two peices have been bonded together to give extra strength, it sits nicely on the Bachmann Junior 0-6-0 'Digby' chassis, but don't worry, the chassis can be used also for the Digby model as i intend to use it in my model series later on.
The buffers beams and boiler have yet to be made, the boiler is currently being rebuilt as the first boiler for Stanley sadly melted, but, as the old saying goes, if at first you don't succeed, try try again.

I'm looking forward to seeing how Stanley turns out, he has been made to the same scale as the other Bachmann models, and there will be a test video of him when he is completed to see how he will look on film as he will be used in my model series.


Pictures to be uploaded later today...