Cut down once again (N part 71)…

“I’ll just collect the 90s era liveries that you can get on these lovely N gauge models” I naively stated way back at the start of this N scale adventure. Today I’m sharing yet another modified, bashed model requiring extensive reworking to represent a specific prototype…In the gap between I suppose that childlike enthusiasm for ‘box fresh’ liveries has morphed into a deep attraction to these miniatures. The act of making each a personal response to a prototype fondly remembered. In this instance I appear to be working through the Spring 1990 Platform 5 ‘Motive Power Pocket Book’ - the cover star created 26037, 03179 followed and now, with Cwmbach a physical reality, 08994 is taking shape before my eyes. This little pocket book survives in my collection due to its small size, and holding it, flicking through the pictures I am transported back over 30 years to a simpler time, where the pages held such a treasure trove of inspiration and prototypes to discover. Unlike 08993 (pictured…