[Andy]

Well I was having a look on e-bay and saw an O-gauge flying Scotsman kit with motor its half built and got it for £330 ;D ;D ;D £600 less than what hachette’s partwork would of cost and about £400 less than a DJH Engineering kit. I’ll post some pictures when it arrives.

[berth44]

That's a great buy Andy,you've saved a fortune indeed,just let's you see that every now and then you do get a bargain on Ebay.
I got a bargain like that a long time ago,picked up 60 issues of the Titanic for 40 bucks,and at 14.95 a pop.....bargain!!
Have 'fun' building your Flying Scotsman Andy,well done, looking forward to those pictures...Dave

[Andy]

Yay it's come, it's the hachette one as the boiler is plastic and from what I have read the DJH kit has a brass one, the bad news no instructions on how to fit some of the parts on, hope that someone on here has made this and can help.

[Andy]

I'm finding a few parts missing also its hard because i'm having to look at other websites to find where parts fit. most the time the photos of close ups are blurry.

[SkyFire]

Looks good and with all the parts added on, a touch up of paint and maybe some light weathering it will look even better.

[Andy]

Anyone know what colour this is? I’ve tried humbrol apple green to dark and another which turned out blue and Doncaster I tested on the boiler and it now looks like BR Green.

[SkyFire]

This site might help,I was wondering if it was LNER Green, but not so sure now. Good luck.

www.craftmasterpaints.co.uk/colours-railway-archive.htm

[Andy]

Colour Code: RA020 LNER Light Buckingham Green, looks like to colour from the website, might try and buy some tonight, if not i'l buy a airbrush and mix the colour. or do it in BR Green and replace the decals.

[SkyFire]

Hope it's the right colour and you can get some.

[Andy]

Some parts have progressed, some have gone backwards, the paint I used for the cab and boiler bubbled and reacted badly to the paint that was already on there. I still can't find the colour I need.

[SkyFire]

At least you have managed to progress with some parts. How many greens can there be!!!

[berth44]

Nice to see you guys getting on with it..looking good.....Dave