J15 upgrade in Hornby Collector Club magazine

Hornby's OO gauge J15 is a really cracking model, but like all RTR, it can be improved IMHO with a bit of dirt and few personal touches.

In the Spring 2020 issue of "The Collector", I've taken the model and performed a few very standard tweaks - renumbering, adding a crew, coal and tools in the tender, light weathering - to provide a generic guide that anyone could follow on their own model.

To be honest, I can't get away from the idea that people are paying - handing over real money - to have someone put coal in the tender of their loco.

I get paying for DCC, that's witchcraft and therefore not something you should practise at home, but coal? People have been doing that for over 6o years.It's simple and fun. Don't pay someone to have fun for you!