Evening all, I have been working on my Hornby O scale Thomas the Tank Engine fleet of Locomotives recently, this is the first one I’m putting together out of parts, I bought a Clockwork Meccano 1929 Flying Scotsman, everything in the mechinsim was very fragile, I’m not a massive fan of Clockwork Trains, I know they have their market, I didn’t want to pay $400 for an electric one as they are not worth that much!!!
I have a small paying job and don’t make a lot of money, I am not going to tell you how much I payed for it but it was a lot less then the eletric version, and find it more convient for it to be electric…, Always wanting a Railway Series Gordon, I ended up stripping the paint off, But fear not…
The Paint work was very rusted and was missing a rear truck, I have found a suitable replacment part for that from a Lionel Scout Locomotive, I used a Lionel Scout Chassis and took out the motor and Gearbox, but left the main Gear on to keep the wheels quartered., I used the Front truck which was a replacment and I plan to rivit that in, the original Front truck wouldn’'t fit in with how the model locomotive was built, I’ve painted the Engine a Sky Blue and will be painting another Layer on it when I get around to it…
The model looks and is indeed rather beautiful and everything looks pretty appropriate on it… while the wheel proportions are not the same as the originals hight I think its one of the best examples out there that have been converted over I’m really proud of this project, I took a aweful Lot of insperation from "MyWorld67’ (On youtube) Hornby O gauge remotoring pojects which are pretty nice, he seems used to the Marx stuff which is nice and all and it did give me a great basis for my project and a lot of the insperation to use the parts that I know and am used too, I plan to replace the Cylinders with some more appropriante ones from a Lionel General that I will modify to make fit eventually, I will be fitting the cross