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I am totally stealing this lift of bridge idea. I may add your name as graffiti under the bridge to cover copywrite :)

Living in the Havant area, this was brilliant.

great backscene, i would never have thought of photographing existing models.

Good point. The shadow is from my video lights which are not normally on so not normally a problem.

A suggestion...move the brewery building backwards, or add some infill, because what you don't want is shadow on the sky.

Looking sweet Keith

Coming together very nicely. Looking forward to seeing some of the videos of this side of the layout in use.

...I struggled for hours to separate the top from the footplate. In the end I inserted a dental probe behind the cylinders blindly to access the tabs and under the boiler inside the cab. You made that look so much easier than my farse :)

hi there,just watched your video for body removal, very helpful, thanks ! these little engines are great

A small layout that looks big ! A great achievement ! Perfect backdrop and perfect trainspeeds.

Great video thanks for sharing, amazing what you can do to these coaches, I must find mine out, there somewhere amongst my stuff, J

This looks great Keith 😊

Keith, I’m just starting out on my first layout (also a 6x4). Could I ask what height yours is please and whether there are any issues reaching things. Thanks, Neil

Good job Keith, the end effect works well. Can I recommend Pritt Stick for this job, I have glue many inkjet printed sections with success and no bleeding. I am missing your running sessions!

I think this looks amazing Keith! As others have said, pritt stick doesn't cause bleed. I actually used cheap double sided tape for mine. Just a suggestion, but I use the cheapest cartridges on ebay for my printing, and as I run a small business I get through a lot and it needs to look perfect. Which it does every time.

You can use Pritt stick (other brands are available) to glue your prints to the backscene. Its not wet, so no bleeding of the colours.

Really looking good. As more fixing, I would suggest 3M Spray Mount (other brands are also available). Used this myself on home made prints are you get no bleed or bubbling. Hope this helps.

I look forward to these. Although I love the running sessions. No one talks through their running sessions with same 'sense of place'.

Great video thanks for sharing, looks amazing what can be done, J

This IS the HO model from the 70's isn't it? It certainly looks a lot like the one I just picked up, though mine is in blue.

Nice engine, seems to be about one third full size as the one built in New New Zealand , but Indian red for the NZ built one.

Hello from the East Riding of Yorkshire. Just watched your excellent video about your 040 pug locomotive. You have made an amazing excellent job of weathering the pug. Well done sir, and I also watched your video about fitting seats, passengers and lightning to the Hornby four wheel coaches. You have done another amazing transformation. The coaches have now come to life. Thank you so much for showing us how you did this. Keep safe and best wishes. 👍🚂

Apart from the D-couplers it looks incredibly realistic! I usually use car tyres weight, but these lead slabs seem much more flexible and probably heavier too.

fantastic weathering - the part immediately below the front windows and along the top of the buffer beam is particulalrly ecctive. Great work. I have a single criticism... the tail-lights need something.

What a very informative and interesting video.. Thank you so much for sharing your story, I think you have done a great job with your little locomotive. She now looks, as you say, just like the shunters would have looked in the early 1950s. Well done sir, I was born in 1955 and I can just remember seeing dirty, sooty black locomotives moving wagons across a road not far from where I used to live. I used to stand with my dad near the crossing gates watching the locomotive and wagons go past. Happy days instead. Well thank you once again for a great channel and a great video. 👍🚂

Great work Keith. That is a Neat look considering its a Cardboard Kit..! Will look great once complete. Thanx for your Efforts. Cheers All, Kim from Downunder Land. 🦘🦘

Super video KV of good progress on the layout. I think the stairs look good. Looking forward to the next update on the background.

Did you use Guagemaster for your chimney pots?

Once Again, wonderful work. 🤗 You should be Well Pleased with your Efforts, turning a Bland Little Toy into a Good Looking little Shunter. I have not seen the Coal piled up in front of the Cab like that before. Great little touch. I can only just remember Steam in my Youth. (back in the Old Country.) And was too young to take in Such Details. But can Imagine the Crew getting as much Coal on Board as Possible, to save some time through the Day..! Time Saved for an Extra Tea Break at some point..! Thanx for your Efforts to Share your Upgrades. Some Great Tips..! Cheers All from Oz. 🦘

Magic. Just Magic..! Well Done Sir, some great tips. Thank you, from Oz. 😎 aka. Downunder.🦘

Warp Speed, Nice..! 😂 I know that Hornby started production with Kids in Mind. But, Why did/do they keep producing these 'Pocket Rockets', decades later when all those Kids, like me.🤪 Are Now looking for a More Realistic Speed.! HoHum Hornby..! Great Video & Great Work. Thanks for your Efforts in Sharing some Upgrade idea's. I have Subscribed, somewhat Late but better than Never. 🤗 Cheers All from Downunder. 😎

I have a Lima 09 which I bought new in 1980. The chassis plastic has become brittle with age and I've had to repair it with industrial thermal curing super glue semi-gel. Back in 1980, I replaced all the buffers with scale working sprung items and fitted Jackson screw link couplings. It was also converted to run under the old Hornby Zero One 1st generation DCC system and it has been running as #9 on my layouts for 44 years now.

Great layout - thanks for sharing...

So I take it you don't like Ratio then ?

A good job well done in my opinion.

I know this comment is really late, but I actually have a Caledonian Railways blue livery pug, from a starter set when I was younger!

at 13:18 that is so impressive I actually love it

Very nice, must catch up on the other episodes

i just wish they had a longer wheelbase so they would look a bit more realistic

Looking great Keith, it’s really coming together now. 👍👏

there’s one of these at my local model shop so i might get it and do these improvements

super job!!!!!!!!!!!😊

Fantastic :)

It looks really good, such a great use of space and adds a whole new environment. I love what you have done with the arches and houses. It's obviously too late now, or maybe not, but what about swinging the tunnel mouths out to make them perpendicular to the track. Having them at an angle to the street above would allow for a proper town square. Just something that occurred to me. 😊

Reminds of the old film where they robbed a van then laid low in a terraced house above the railway line this is where they met their end in the passing coal trains one by one.

great work Keith

there is something quite nice about the southern region green livery

these look stunning well done

Thank you for the video. I just bought a second hand 25 and will implement your suggestions. Just the ticket!

I love the 2BILs too and wish I had a layout.