Bit more work on Pandora

Howdy folks.

My Ten Thunders are complete except for a little varnish. May I present...

3 Totakage.





Shang



Ototo


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I actually painted these months ago, but been holding off posting as there is a 3rd on the painting desk waiting to be finished.

I present Brother Vicconius of the 2nd Co. and Death Co. Brother Mallop of the 8thCo.



Comments and Criticisms welcome.

I've managed to get a Hornby 8F locomotive + tender to base the Panzerzug on (it should be a German BR 57 0-10-0 locomotive but they're pretty expensive!), but now it's arrived I've found a couple of problems. The first is that I didn't realise it was a tender drive set I was getting, so I can't use the chassis I already had for the tender. The second is that the loco and tender are both a bit longer than the Panzerzug - while I could get out my dremel and trim them down to close to the right size, my son has decided that he likes the 8F too so the train will now be interchangeable; the 8F tender shell will be removed to put on the Panzerzug tender shell as the 8F shell is too high to cover over, and the loco shell will be built to fit over the existing 8F shell with about 15mm longer armour and clearance for the front bogey, allowing it to run as a German train or as a British steam train both in the 1942-1945 period.

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