Hank OO - WIP

With Rosie now completed, i have now moved on to do my next new project, which is none oter than Hank the American, who is being made with thanks to the inspiration of Michael, a member of the Sudrian Railway Modeller's Forum, who is also building Hank using a Bachmann K4 Pacific.

The model at current has been sprayed after having the excess details removed, like handrails, cow-catcher and chassis, it has then been sprayed with a coat of Ultramarine Blue and left to dry, whilst in the mean time, i am working on painting Hank's wheels, till the body has properly dried. Once it has, i can then add the details back on the model and touch up any patchy areas, the main problem was removing the bodyshell, some parts came unstuck, so i had to glue them back on, which was a real pain, but i am glad they did not snap completely, otherwise, id be in a real state trying to repair the damages.

But luckily, it has been a quick repair, and looks smashing as the moment, i cannot wait to add the other details, but the more time spent on the model, the better he will be. ;)

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Rosie OO - Complete!

It has been a long while since i did any modelling, and i am happy to say and show you all that Rosie, is now officially 100% completed and running very well. She is a complete new build from start to finish and runs on a Bachmann Junior 0-6-0 with a valve gear from a V1 2-6-2T.

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Happy New Year!

A very happy new year to one and all, the Thomas Modeller wishes everyone all the best for 2o10, and looks forward to modelling more new characters for your enjoyment as the new year opens.

kind regards

The Thomas Modeller

Webmasters Apologies

Dear all blog followers and viewers.

I must apologise for the severe lack of updates over the last few months, i have been so busy with my modelling that i havn't gotten around to updating the blog in a long while, hopefully as the new year closes in, the blog will be kept up to date as of January, with more new updates and projects that have been recently completed and curently in the works.

Alot of events have happened over the last few months, some good and some bad, i won't go into details as alot of it is personal and to do with events in my offline life.

But i hope you will all continue to follow the blog, and again, i am sorry for not updating it sooner, please accept my apologies, and have a happy new year, and roll on 2010.

kind regards

The Thomas Modeller

Donald and Douglas - Complete!

Well, it's been another good project, and it has turned out better than i had expected, although the chassis maybe shorter than the real tv models, i am pleased with my models of the scottish twins.

Donald and Douglas have so far been my most fave projects, both models have been entirely built from scratch and run on a pair of Hornby 0-6-0 motors, they have been well oiled ands run smoothly.

I will soon have a video made of the twins running on my partly built layout, but for now, here are pics of the finished models.

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Bachmann Thomas and Percy Upgrade!

This is just something i did as a quick project, basically, i have removed the eye mechanisms from both engines carefully and put them aside for future use. The faces on the models are wrong anyway to begin with, so i have also removed these and put them to one side.

I have two old Hornby Thomas and Percy models, which i have removed the faces from carefully and made slight adjustments to them. With that complete, the faces have been placed on the fronts of the Bachmann Thomas and Percy, and the result, a more TV series look-alike Thomas and Percy.

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Douglas - 70% Done!

Well, progress on Douglas is coming along nicely, won't be too long now before he is done, just need safety valves and whistle to be added, the i can start his tender. Pics below of current progress:

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