“Thomas faces guy” | 🇨🇦 | 24 | Collector | Modeller | Gordon enthusiast
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined January 2017
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“No record breaking. Don’t push him too hard.”
“Henry won’t need pushing, Sir; I’ll have to hold him back!”
An inevitable variant in any RWS modeller’s collection, here’s my RWS Henry MK1! 🟢🚂
SCC A0 H1 shell, and had quite a lengthy and complicated build process (🧵⬇️)
“Donald and Douglas are Scottish twin engines. They are practical, peppery, and proud!” 🏴
Glad to finally finish my TVS model of the Scottish Twins; ones I’ve been meaning to get to for years!
Faces are designed excellently by @the_chairlord, and printed n painted by myself.
I have a lot more custom/RWS-inspired faces that Andrew did too that need to get painted up (plus a bunch of paint variants), but the main set will suffice for now; mostly cuz I hate sanding!
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We've been so conditioned to react to media with hyperbole. Everything has to be either the best thing ever or an irredeemable failure.
I wish we could have more good-faith criticism & discussions, rather than feeling the need to lambast the people involved.
Finally (*finally*) got around to finishing the rest of Edward’s new faces!
Really going for an “absolutely zero-print lines” code, hence why these take longer😅
[Half are scaled down prop scans courtesy of @/ThomasModeller and others, and half are courtesy of @/the_chairlord]
I’m not gonna bother with paint variants when I do new batches to start for now. My backlog is big enough as is (and I HATE sanding for it messes with my sinuses and hands), so they’ll be bonus material after the main ones.
Here’s some variants I do have planned for future tho:
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This may be a controversial take, (and remember this is just my opinion) but I feel that whenever any incarnation of Thomas uses the trope “the smaller engines are little kids and the big engines are adults!”, It totally wrecks the dynamic that made Thomas work
Absolutely blown away with all the detail and the quality of Wilbert; can’t believe almost the entire model is diecast, and yet nothing is left out. Well done Accurascale, another home run!
Also nice coincidence this arrived same day as the 80th anniversary of Thomas’ book :)
Also four other models I’ve gotten between about June or so’ and now that I haven’t posted about. Kinda having a tough time with life in general atm, so you quickly forget to talk about trains :(
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Thank you, TidmouthStreetlight!!! 👍✨
Amazing quality on these photos, and please do give this a read regarding them. All I can say, after reading, is ABOUT TIME.
ttte.fandom.com/f/p/44000000…
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It's official everyone! The pre-orders for the book are now starting to go live! The book will go on sale on the 14th September and will be available as hardback, and is already available to pre-order on Barnes and Noble. Due to the amount of colour photos in the book (Over 200 of them) it will be priced at £22.99. Watch this space for more links as they appear. Really looking forward to everyone getting to see this...
