TandH's thomas customs

Some more customs + an update on 87546:

Gordon:

Like Henry and Spencer, my tomy Gordon has the rod mod. But he also got a new bodyshell from an 09 Gordon. So its the best of both worlds in terms of running and looking nice.

Stepney:

A few small mods done, I repainted the yellow on the stickers as they were faded (will probably print new ones at some point), painted his face and removed his lamps and replaced them with very tall lamp irons like he has in the show.

Billy:

I always found it strange that, despite being the same class of engine, Billy's trackmaster model was longer than Charlie's. So I cut him down and made him shorter. He's actually a tiny bit shorter than Charlie now. His buffers were also cut down. I think it was to make him look more consistent with the other engines. Final things I did was paint his face a bit and give him some weight in at the front so he could run better.

1020:

An engine from the books who only appeared once, 1020 was made out of a 3rd party trackmaster Donald or Douglas and the cab, smokebox of a tomy james and the tender of a 2015 plarail Gordon. I want to go back and redo him at some point as he doesn't have the smoothest finish.

87546 update 1:

Begun work on 87546, I cut off the dome and top feed from the henry boiler and made a new firebox out of miliput. I also cut off the buffers and filled in a few gaps on the running board. I also have changed his tender to a james one as it has the right buffers and isn't corroded to the point of being unsalvageable.