So ugly they're gorgeous.

[Jon Fitness]

Hi Jon

What's the origin of your Co-Bo? It looks brilliant!

I want one ....or two!

Tim

Hi Tim it's a Steve Beattie kit with a lot of extra scratch bits added. The brass bits were mostly ok but anything resin or whitemetal needed extra work or replacing. Only ever seen one other completed model so there's probably quite a few unmade ones kicking about!!
JF

 

[InvernessTMD]

It looks like O.V. Bulleid, did a bit of freelance work before he joined the Southern and produced Leaders dad.

What an odd wheel arrangement though, 0-4-4 + 0-4-4. I'd have expected 0-4-4 + 4-4-0 or 4-4-0 + 0-4-4.

The forward view must have been . That must be the biggest chimney fitted to a British loco ever!!!

Hello Jim, thanks for that link,
It's hard to believe that this became
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This
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Or the other way around?

So it's a turbine loco with the "normal" front at the back (chimney end). So at one point it's wheel arrangement was 2-A-A +2-A-A, then 2-A-A + A-A-2, I'm not sure if turbines count
OzzyO.

This has been edited after some posts had been posted while I was writing the first part.

Erm, just looking through this thread again... the "bogies" under the smokebox appear to have been turned 180 degrees between the photos...

 

[John Miller]

Not everything was handsome in the old days!!!!!!!
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OzzyO.

Are those rerailing jacks on the front footplate? - it must have taken a lot of effort to get that thing back on the tracks without a crane ....