11.Hornby O Gauge Locomotive Tender

I recently dropped on an old 1950’s Hornby tin plate engine in a charity shop, for a price I couldn’t ignore. It brought back old memories of the engine that I’d inherited off my elder siblings many years before and my quest in oiling the motion, quartering the wheels and re-pinning the broken spring…

Back then I used to fix other children’s trains, which usually meant oiling them from a seized state, but on a few occasions, I was asked to remove the back of tank engines to allow better access to the cab and even loosen the tags holding the smoke box door in place to access the boiler inside, so no surprise to me that this engine was missing them and maybe karma!

Project under development: handbrake, tender steps, coal and buffers, separate imminent, along with livery letter versions, a 4-wheel variant, couplings and more….

So what should I do, wait for a cheap body to turn up on eBay to cannibalise or design my own for 3d-printing???

Here’s the results from my current project of restoration that I’ve extended to replace things like wagon wheels and even complete tenders….

I’ve put together a series of prints that I will slowly add to over time….