Judgement Day For Patrick

[tedp]

Very very nice work David, and very Hudswell or Hunslet in character.  If you fancy another variant of this, I did one a few years back very similar to yours, but I extended the frames out the front and added a front mounted gearbox, a la Moelwyn, some early Fowlers and early Hudwells.

Cheers,

Charlie I

Like this one you mean, Charlie? Regrettably mine has one of the early Atlas chassis and it

[Tigger]

Many thanks both!  Yes, Hunslet or Hudswell - although I was aiming for Hunslet with the cab cut-outs the general appearance does have a bit of a Hudswell resonance about it.  Either way I'm pleased that it looks a meaningful business-like loco!  I rather like your version Ted - reminds me of a small 7

[Tigger]

Took T.I.M. down to Sparsholt for interested parties to have a look.  Many thanks all for your kind comments and I've now bought from Andrew and laid in a spare chassis for the loco.  Mark cornered me so it looks like I now need to download all the text from this thread and produce an article for the News!  Ho Hum.  I was thinking of doing that a few weeks ago so as it looks like it'll be worth doing, I'll get around to it!  Narrow Planet are producing a 1949 Hunslet 90hp maker's plate for me!  Looking at similar-sized and dated diesels I think that'll be about right and I'll keep weathering down to merely 'scruffy' rather than 'wrecked'!

[MickT]

Good to see you at Sparsholt David and thanks for showing T.I.M. to me. The new cab and particularly the radiator give it a whole new atmospheric look in my opinion.

Did you just get the spare chassis from Andrew or did you go for the full set of 3 that you were building up to?

Mick

[B.Meldon]

It was good to see

[Tigger]

Greetings chaps!  So much for a last posting!  Should've known better!

In order then,
1.  Thanks Mick, everyone who's seen T.I.M. has agreed that the new radiator is a vast improvement - Brian can take credit for that as it was his suggestion.
2.  Nope, I've only got the one chassis so far - although I'm looking for another yellow one to add to my 'rare models' collection... ;D ;D
3.  Thanks Brian, yes indeed I'm going to download all my notes from the Forum and create an article for Mark.  That's the great thing about digital cameras - you get a decent collection of 'as I built it' photos!