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This grubby girl is off to a Kent 16mm NGM meet soon so I thought I would sort out any paint chips (easily done on a loco that is meant to look 'used').

The wheels were a bit chipped as well and as I am bored of watching plain disc wheels on locos I decided they needed some colour:

They are slightly weathered so that you can now see the wheels rotating with all the scratch marks and dirt wheels attract.

Looks lovely Tom! The weathered look of it really adds a bit of character to it.

cooltrain wrote: ↑Sun Jun 03, 2018 4:15 pm Looks lovely Tom! The weathered look of it really adds a bit of character to it.

She's lovely. I love the Lady Anne locomotives. Your coal fired Riverdale must be, for me, the ultimate. Black too. ATM that's my preferred colour.

Ian

Black for a coal fired loco in this scale is a must as everything get's so hot and dirty you will always be wanting to touch her up, paintwork wise of course.

Don’t you think that’s the same with Gas fired Tom, boiler’s do get hot with them too don’t they, so black is the "IN” colour……

Black in combination with stainless steel and brass fittings look great. I really like the charm of this locomotive

And here she is running at the weekend:

I didn't take any photos or video myself so created this little video with what I got from other Kent 16mm NGM members:

Looking good! That Charles is a lovely engine, but looks positively toy-like compared to your loco.

Nice-looking line too, I like the canal boat - I shall enjoy watching the video when I have a little more time...

Cheers,

Andrew.

Lovely shots there, shame there isn't more to show. A great occasion no doubt and plenty of railway locos and stock to keep everyone very happy!

Lovely station and oh for smellavision!

Fantastic shots Tom!

Mitch

She is one smooth running loco Tom…you must be so proud to own her.

A possible end to my condensate issue as described here:

https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 29&t=11264

Stay tuned for updates!


Hint, it's a modifed exhaust tee with a valve so that water can drain under the loco rather than out the chimney and all over the bodywork...

tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 8:29 pm

Stay tuned for updates!

Oooh, you tease!

In position and ready to drain:

Good solution, nicely executed. Keen to see results of steam tests

First run with the modified exhaust and it's a success!

Lovely controllable performance. The only thing we couldn't share was the aroma of coal fired steam!

Do you leave the exhaust valve slightly cracked all the time? Tim