Oliver
Gavin's version of Oliver
As with Duck, I only needed to do minimal changes to the new Hornby 14xx to transform it into a fairly accurate Oliver. First, the hand-rail in the smokebox was pulled out and bent away. I had no choice but to hacksaw the face off of the luminescent radioactive glowing Hornby version of Oliver! I also battered away the smokebox to accomodate Oliver's face. The hand-rails and pillar were then bent back into place. I gave it a super mild weathering down below, and added brass numberplates '1436'as I had done with Duck's. The buffer-beams were painted a better red, and I added a screw link coupling. That's pretty much it!
I have been doing some in-depth Oliver research on MTF with Simon Martin (SimierskiUK) and I think Oliver is accurate the way I've represented the locomotive, black tank tops and all. None of the real 14xx's before preservation had green tank-tops as every RWS illustration of Oliver suggests. Even the tank-tops on the Rev. Awdry's model are black. I assume that the RWS artists had made the correlation with Thomas's tank-tops etc., and assumed the same. So black it is for the reasons stated above!
I wish to thank SiF and MTF Member Simon Martin of the 'British Railway Series' for providing me with a wealth of information on the subject, cheers bud!
Below: A few shots of Gavin's version of Oliver posed together with his friend, Duck!
I have been doing some in-depth Oliver research on MTF with Simon Martin (SimierskiUK) and I think Oliver is accurate the way I've represented the locomotive, black tank tops and all. None of the real 14xx's before preservation had green tank-tops as every RWS illustration of Oliver suggests. Even the tank-tops on the Rev. Awdry's model are black. I assume that the RWS artists had made the correlation with Thomas's tank-tops etc., and assumed the same. So black it is for the reasons stated above!
I wish to thank SiF and MTF Member Simon Martin of the 'British Railway Series' for providing me with a wealth of information on the subject, cheers bud!
Below: A few shots of Gavin's version of Oliver posed together with his friend, Duck!
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