I think after one has built a few cars, in whatever scale, there is always the desire to see some different variation on the most common car - hence our love of work train equipment.

This was my first Gn15 locomotive and much tweaking and detailing still remains to be done. Built around the chassis of a Bachmann On30 Porter, the tank, cab, stack and backhead are scratchbuilt from styrene.

Here’s something that’s a little different. I found the kit on Ebay and it just screamed out for a conversion!

All I know about this model (I may have mislaid Ian Holmes’s explanatory email as it was sent in way back last year) is that it was originally a Hornby “Bill” from the Thomas The Tank range.

As a result of some conversations with Mike Decker on the Minimum Gauge and Estate Railways forum I ended up with some photographs and a dimensioned sketch of the Riverside and Great Northern Railway works loco.

Ian Holmes wrote: "During construction I sought advice from technical experts on this group on how to solve certain problems. Then something unusual happened. My advisor started to build one! …"

Here’s my contribution to the R&GN Speeder Reconstruction Project. I was the last guy to get started, so Steve Bennett and Ian Holmes both had a week’s head start on me.

Gerry writes: Katie is scratchbuilt from plasticard on a Hornby “Ben” chassis to a scale of 1:24. The boiler uses 25mm diameter electrical tubing - £1 from B&Q for 2 metres (enough for a lifetime’s scratchbuilding). The dome is from Alan Gibson. The whistle, gauge glasses, tools and Roscoe lubricator are 7mm scale items and were picked up at local exhibitions.

These photographs show a scratchbuilt plasticard body on a Model Power Plymouth DDT chassis.

When Thomas Yorke produced a Vertical Boiler kit some years back I saw the potential for using it together with components from Michael Rayner’s Vertical Boiler kit to produce a reasonable model of a De Winton.

Even though I am primarily a 1:20.3 modeler, I have been building a few models in Gn15 over the past couple of years.

Don Coker’s heavily weathered Gnat is the star of its very own tutorial (see Don’s weathering tips under Hints &amp Tips) but also more than deserves its place in this showcase.

Terry writes: This model is based on an old Triang “OO” gauge model with handwheels made from the wheel hubs of a 1:24th Ford “T”.

While Frank Savery’s large scale version King Island Tramway is very much a sideline to the 0n30 version now, things are still happening.

Gerry Balding’s been building some Eaton Railway stock.

Alongside Ian’s “Bill” conversion (see the separate entry for this), Ian sent in this picture of his recreated Heywood train.

Ian Holmes has sent us a tantallising teaser photo of what we hope will become a project somewhere on this wonderful world-wide web.

Gerry Balding’s also sent us photos of his Hudson-Hunslet model.

Ian’s already shared with us how he built his railcar (see the projects page), but for some reason we didn’t put the finished article in this showcase (shame on us!).

Gerry Balding dropped me an email (a while ago, I admit) saying: “This is the part finished loco I had at the Norwich exhibition last March. Taken long enough to do!” - EH

Joe Gilmartin’s scratchbuilt this absolutely fabulous Rapier loco and had kindly agreed to publication on the site.

Marc Horovitz, editor of Kalmbach’s ‘Garden Railways’ magazine, has admitted dabbling in Gn15 - and in LIVE STEAM to boot!

Gerry wrote: “Terry Allen suggested I send you copies of my photos of my version of Terry’s ‘Cheapie’ with a view to adding it to the Gn15 site.”

Terry writes: The basis of this was a “Sidelines” Gnat less the bonnet and sides.

Mosca was the first known scratchbuilt Gn15 locomotive (I made her well before ordering a Gnat kit).

Here’s the latest off my assembly line. I don’t know what it is, I only build them.

Here are some photos of “PUCK” - a ‘Rushton’ type GN15 loco using the Bachmann branchlines 04 chassis.

Gerry Bullock deals with distractions in the only sensible manner - by acting on impulse.

This is a photo from Dallas Mallerich, of Boulder Valley Models, who’s just started modeling in Gn15.