Quite a few years ago, I built this 7mm : 1 foot scale model  Black Five locomotive & tender, the railway engine I remembered so well as a boy.    If you'd grown up in the North of England in the 30's or 40's as I did, you'd know exactly what a black five was ...  the workhorse of the L.M.S.  before the days of British Railways. 

The locomotive shown above, is a non working display model, constructed of acrylic sheet and epoxy castings.  The wheels, valve gear, and tender axleguards, are the epoxy parts, which were cast from RTV rubber molds.    The originals ... to make the molds, were made from plexiglas and auto body fillers.

The coal in the tender is actual Lancashire coal, that we brought with us from England when we came to Canada.