Isn't it amazing what a difference a little clean up and drop of paint can do for a loco that looked as if it had seen better days. Well done all round, Mike and Douglas. Take care...

A very helpful Tutorial BMR! I have my own 0-4-0 in a similar state! This method will definitely help me to restore it!

Having recently discovered your channel I’ve now watched all your vids.Brilliant !! Can’t wait for the next one!!

That loco (in its original blue and the number 26 was my second loco, my first being another one of these, 107 Truro

Steady hand..looks great

Very nice work! Great tutorial on restoring and painting a rather sad little loco. The end results were excellent!

I get so much pleasure and inspiration from your videos. Thanks guys.

I have a Holden 101 0-0-4-0T of my own. It originally was my dad's when he was younger. The locomotive still works and I use it all the time. I even have the box it originally came in!

Nice informative video. Good restoration too.Thanks 👍

Cool. Nice steady hands applying the thin lines of paint.

Top video! The chassis is quite well catered for with spares if it isn’t working well. Good restoration on the loco body too!

Another very interesting and inspirational video. I don't think my hands are steady enough these days to do the hand rails though. Good to have the Tutorial Tuesdays back - keep them coming guys!

Amazingly beautiful done!!! Great job!! Regards Onno.

Brilliant job.

Great job.

wow guys that loco looks AMAZING!

Hi Mike & Douglas, great how to, you have done a great job on the 0-4-0 considering the state it was in at the start, to the finished product it looks fantastic and all for 3 to 4 pound you can't get any better than that. Regards George.

Great video. Nice to see another loco saved from oblivion. Great work guys.

great video would of loved to see it running :)

wow I’ll have to certainly try this some time

Looks good guys! You could always put BMR on the sides as the "company" name. And bronze round the windows would look good if your hand is steady enough.

Mike more power to you elbow that was brilliant, shows what you can do with a little bit of imagination and a few paints. The blue you put on as a base coat I think going back to the 60's it was "Duck egg blue" I remember using it on a De-Haviland Mosqiuto. Great video, Frank

Cool of what you did whit that locomotive please make more videos about that and how is the 3-D printing coming along

Hi I'm coming back to this video for a second time after being invested into the miniture painting hobby, and wanted to ask wouldn't it be better when painting kits or repainting models to use plastic spray primer so the paint apply's smoother and gives a nicer smoother finish using less coats, I understand it's not possible when mechanical parts are at stake but simple stuff like wagons and kits would probably benefit greatly from spray priming.

Nice job and the price is right.

Nice colour scheme, man. Looked like a brand-new factory-fresh model by the time you were done. :)

Hi I have got an engine the same as yours that is a non runner, I have taken body off ,and my question is ,should it have a copper strip connected to wheels on both sides of the motor, ,my motor only has one.if it should need another copper strip that connects to the other two wheels could you tell me what to ask for in model shop. Ie part No etc Thanks Trevor

Wow guys that looks amazing nice little engines them 0.4.0s got one in dark red with British railways texts on tanks got it from flea market for 50p guy on store said it was only good for parts turned out it works very nicely

If you used a bit of masking tape then the brass would have come out much better. I also think the number plate should have been brassed. I don't think there's much more that can be done without spending alot of money. I wanted to do a restoration by adding a driver, firebox handles, proper handbags with standoffs, lamp irons etc but the cost is stupid for a cheap loco. Perhaps you could sell a budget 0-4-0 detailing kit.

Great video as always :) I might try and get another cheap 0-4-0 off of ebay.

I have never seen anyone with a steady hand like that ! I am amazed , if I did It , well we don’t even want to talk about; what it would look like ! 😂

Wonderful transformation, loving the chocolate brown. Maybe you could modify an loco like this , think it would add a lot of interest to your loco fleet.

Buying something for very small money that's slightly wrecked and restoring it can be great fun and very satisfying. Sometimes it's nice to create something freelance or slightly different. It's low risk/cost fun that everyone should have ago at.

brilliant video i have a 0-4-0 loco in similar condition would i be able to paint it using normal airfix kit paints or would i have to use the paints from the rc range

I have a 101 with original box and with a Bachmann driver in the cab. She runs very well. (She will make an appearance in some of my videos)

Nice job. Putting some painter's tape along the edges of the hand rails would help keep them nice and uniform for painting - there's a couple of spots where the thickness of the bronze changes along the rail as a result of being painted free hand. Also, you can pick up replacement rails and support pins fairly cheaply. Sand the moulded rails flush, drill a couple of holes and then it's just a case of glueing them in place. Do you plan to add any names / logos/ running numbers etc.? I'm sure somewhere like hobby craft would sell stencils for those sorts of things.

Hi, I can recommend using chrome pens for the hand rails etc. Much easier than using a paint brush. I gather you realise that it is missing the rest of it's valvegear

The best stuff is nail polish remover ,it also remover polyglue . What I did is have some bad 009 kits and rebuilt them .rly good vid

I've have a 08 shunter to paint. Can I paint straight on top of the existing paint. And what paint should I use. Thanks.

Very nice! What do you think about grinding down the plastic hand rails, drilling some small holes and applying some fine wire to the body as real metal hand rails? I'm tempted to try that. I have the fine wire to use up. Thanks for the video, keep them coming!

What about painting the whistles and valves

Great job as always as ive told you before somehow i manged to buy a little blue engine and 3 four wheeled carriges for £15 i was pleased with that.Its pretty old i believe,but i got it working fine with a bit of a clean and a touch of 3-1 oil.I saw somewhere on here a video that taught me to put a drop of oil in a bottle top,bend a paper clip straight and just dip and apply using the clip.Have you got anymore of those controller boxes yet? Thanks regards,Michael.

Antifreeze makes good paint stripper (also sold as airbrush cleaner) and won't effect the plastic. I do hate shiny wheels. I use blackening salts whicg doesn't effect their conductivity.

I have an identical loco to this but am unable to work out how to separate the chassis from the body

Not a bad job there, although you lost me at the brass handrails but that's just me... Also I know the channel is about keeping a budget but if you don't mind forking out for a lining sheet from fox transfers it makes all the difference. You can get quite a few small locos done with them, really worth the effort.

Love this tutorial, will you ever make a video on how to do lettering?

I have a Caledonian loco that needs repainting and repair if you want to have a bash at it

How did you get the body off ?

I'm still struggling to figure out how to make the body come off mine. any pointers?

Hi guys, totally unrelated question but what are your thoughts on On30 vs 009? Thanks, James

What paint do you use in my Model tin of paint are £2.50

She needs a running number as well as a railway company decal logo... Even if its Warner Brothers ACME... Considering Coyote's infamous poor luck, the running number of 13 comes to mind... Definitely not Thomas' number 1...

You need to get yourself an airbrush and cheap compressor the results would be leaps ahead good job anyway

I’m restoring my own 0-4-0 loco

Truthfully, so much more could be made of this loco, with the use of an air gun to pain with, some masking tape and some proper tipped paint brushes! The finish you have achieved is a vast improvement on the way it began but it’s a mottled appearance and this is purely because it is brushed, rather than the evenness of an air gun. Air guns are cheap and incredibly easy to use.... so I don’t know why you shy away from them. The hand rails, while good, are very uneven and therefore look nothing like a hand rail should do.... mask off the area around the hand rails and then paint it using a pointed tip brush, not a flat edge.... this should then be left to dry before removing the masking tape.... and voila.... hand rails with dead straight, well defined edges that look realistic.

A sanding block to clean wheels,, noooooooooo

Excellent series! But I'm wincing at the mess you're making of that cutting mat (speaks the graphic artist)! Use cardboard!!

I like your videos loads but I simply don’t believe this is the way forward as railways should be a fine art of perfection the same with art really, yes it’s no way to get anyone into the hobby but it gives them something to aim for, not many channels document there first day of layouts it’s usually there 2 or 3rd layout they document all the way from track laying but I don’t see the point in spending £5 - £10 here and there on logos that arnt realisitic when you could have got your self a dcc sound loco (if you ran dcc) for the price of 10-15 of your 040 “pocket rockets

WHY DID YOU SAND THE WHEELS ... WHY