Horsetan

Looks like Hollywood Foundry's product.

It happens.

Grand. Thanks There's a very long-term Swiss-German HO project I have in mind, which uses this colour.

Is there a RAL colour code for it?

They'll be dining out on this one for years to come.

Spreading yourself?

Yes, I wouldn't be without mine!

Interesting. The build article seemed to think it came with castings.....in which case, where did the builder get them from?

Possible replacement for faulty Heljan motors, for example. Or cheap alternative to Mashima for kits. Some Mitsumis come with a worm (pitch unknown), so that will need to be extracted if you're using your own preferred geartrain.

4-4-0s generally need all the help they can get, as do 0-4-4Ts.

Maxons are very strong motors. Expensive, but strong. Alternatives are Escap and Faulhaber. More weight?

Let me know when you start hallucinating.

Dunno if this will show up, but here goes: This is a blown-up crop of the original photo, the copyright of which belongs to SLS. There's also six rivets on the door itself, in a hexagon formation.

Reported on here as well

Wow, the corrosion really has got into that cab door.....

It might actually be 35 rivets because there are a couple that seem to be hidden by the smokebox door hinges. I've taken a close-up photo of the original photo, and will see if I can blow it up even more to verify the count.

I make it 33 visible rivets on 560's smokebox front.....so far.

If you look at the rivets on the smokebox front of 560, and then try to line them up with the adjacent rivets on the smokebox wrapper (a bit like "joining the dots"), what you get is a zig-zag pattern, hence staggered. Most people won't be too fussed about this, and that's fine, but it is something I noticed and since I have a rivet press I might as well give it some proper work to do! GSR/CIE really were great believers in rivets - smokeboxes were absolutely covered in them, and it can be a total pain in the **** when you're trying to get it right. The other thing I have to try to do is calculate how many rivets there are around the smokebox front of 560.

Maybe you were lucky. Others were not.

What people may not know is that DC Kits can be a bit erratic these days when it comes to delivery or even simple customer service, as is evident from this thread. If they have no time to pick up the phone, how can you be sure you'll get your order?

Maybe not so much designed around the motor, but certainly around the motor mounting screw points. What other motors share the same fixing centres?

I had quite a bit of difficulty, when squinting at photos of J26s late in their service lives, trying to make out the smokebox rivet patterns as the photographic qualities weren't the best. Eventually, a photo of 560 on the little turntable at Waterford suggested that not only were there a lot of rivets, but that the ones on the smokebox front did not line up horizontally with the ones on the smokebox wrapper, giving a sort of staggered effect. Not sure how my rivet press is going to cope with this!

Difficult choice, I reckon. Worsley Works has crisper finish because it's etched, but you get no castings, according to the website, or any help with the rounded top of the nose. However, this build article says that castings are supplied. Silver Fox gives you a one-piece shell and details, but may not be quite as crisp.