Commission: Plantation trio…

It has been a few weeks since these locomotives were completed, this trio of plantation narrow gauge models are all based around Fourdees examples…

Left to right we have a RTR ‘Joan’ that has been repainted and weathered, a kit ‘Mossman’ and a RTR ‘Atlas’ - all similarly finished in a consistent ‘locomotive green’ (SECR the tin says) with solebar footplate edge in yellow. Equally, each has a Modelu crew and has been lightly weathered.

  

The works shunter is this small ‘Bundaberg Fowler’ style locomotive, that utilises the superb but now unavailable Quarry Hunslet from Bachmann for its chassis. Viewed in isolation it feels quite burly but compared to Joan, she’s a tiddler.

  

The Peckett Atlas is based upon similar examples built for service in South Africa. She was green already so just needed touching up, the yellow stripe adding and sealing with satin lacquer before weathering. 

  

Surely the star of the show is the impressive Joan, I repainted the ready to run model in the same green and added the various embellishments before sealing and weathering. She really is quite massive compared to the other pair, but as the prototype is 2’6” rather than 2’ it isn’t surprising. She’ll look great hauling the mainline trains on my customers future layout.

Bringing this set together has been great fun, they’re actually destined for service on a layout scheme I created a few years ago ‘Peurto Bella Sugar’. The cane bins shown on Friday’s update are also headed for this project - which I may be helping Alan with next year. Time will tell!

If you have a project in any scale or gauge, from simple weathering to complete scratch-build get in touch for a no-obligation fixed price proposal. Until next time, more soon…

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