NervousEnergy

Thanks to everyone for the assistance! I am very grateful! Plan so far for the R59 is see if I can find a plastic kit and adapt it ..I'm alright with a craft knife, and have lots of miniature wargaming supplies and experience that may come in handy. If that goes badly I'll be looking for an old bodyshell to fit on, and going from there. Either way I'd like to get some of these transfers, so I'll look for this nofolk place! The Jinty I've got running already (new brushes and magnet), and managed to find an old BEC kit, for a white metal body. This weighs a tonne, and the jinty seems to run a bit jerky so might need a full rebuild, which I'm nervous about doing as the wheels will need to come off.... Guess while they're off I'll file down that MAHOOSIVE flange on the wheels, to stop it rattling across the chairs. :/ Hope everyones good and more advice etc would be greatly received!

Hello! I have been cleaning and servicing some older trains from my childhood, and have recently dug out the old triang Jinty 0-6-0 and the 2-6-2 R59 Tank engine. I've cleaned and lubricated them both, replaced magnets and brushes and they are now both working. However, the bodyshells are utterly ruined. The were loved hard, and were knocking on 20 years old (I think) when the 6 year old me first got hold of them. Almost 30 years further on and they are hideous, chipped and bashed amid the shiny pristine modern models. But, they have enormous sentimental value, and I love the durable and irascible personalities of them. . i can't really bear making them into 'scrap siding' trains, and seeing as they both work I would like to use them. I was wondering if anyone knows of body kit, or shell, or anything really that would replace the originals? Ebay has a lot of old triang shells from the same train in various levels of disrepair, but I would rather a new one altogether... I have done a lot of looking online and not found what I'm looking for, so I thought I would ask the experts! :) Thanks a million for any advice you can offer!