I’d have liked to smooth it more but Plasto is too stubborn for this scale – people recommend paint thinners – but some snips of waste filament mixed in made a decent coal load. “Good from afar…” and all that, but for a first attempt I’m happy.

Keep on creating, y’all.

The real Ertl Mike surfacing in 2022 was what experts call ‘the Sir Handel Effect’ – when you take so long to #Season4IsBack that #Season4ComesBack on its own against all odds. Redesigned Mike (in Blender) last year then held a paintbrush for the first time since high school.

After scouring Small Railway Engines for the sort of details a designer might pick up on (we now know Jock the New Engine was used instead) I made version 1 in gmax. Note the lamp iron and clearly-digitally-built valve gear – because you won’t be seeing them again.

I've always felt that what we know about the Meccano Percy is a bit muddy, and these drawings provide a little more context in the form of dates - *and* what I believe to be new information. I'll try to do a write-up at some point.
And yes, I've made 3D models of them. (3/3)

Diagrams for Percy's ubiquitous trucks survive, too - if there were ever any other elevations drawn (I expect there will have been) these are not present. Also absent is anything relating to the track sections, but they're listed on a job list which also surfaced recently. (2/3)