Easy Hornby Class 25 Improvements - to fix lean, add extra pickups and weather the body. 

Thank you for the video. I just bought a second hand 25 and will implement your suggestions. Just the ticket!

The mods certainly did the trick. Excellent weathering too.

Fantastic job well done indeed. Well filmed and narrated also. Cheers, Mike

I got myself one of these recently but as a dummy loco with no motor bogie, perfect for my use case for it. I repainted it as an ETHEL loco (EHTEL 2 in blue/grey).

You have made an excellent job of that locomotive Keith.

A very enjoyable film, your voice is so wonderful! Whilst I will never do any weathering I might attempt the extra pick ups.

there’s one of these at my local model shop so i might get it and do these improvements

Just came across your video, been looking for ages for ways to improve my old Hornby/Lima pickup. Thanks.

Another great video. Fantastic job on the weathering.

well done keith. very nice indeed

Absolutely brilliant thanks Keith. I already have one of those Eileen's kits but was not sure how to use it. Now I know! I have one question - where did you get the lead sheets? I'd like to correct the lean on my Hornby Class 29 so will give that a go. It also needs weathering, and I like your techniques. I've still not summed up the courage to take my airbrush out of the box so I really need to do that some time! All the best.

Keith, have you ever replaced or added pickup's to a Hornby R239 BR black class 4P 2-6-4T or similar? I am replacing the x03 motor with the new Peters Spares can motor and discovered the original pickups are too loose in the chasis. After watching this original video I have upgraded several CL86, CL87, CL55 CL156 loco's. Thanks again.

Very nice job 👍🏻 Just shows you don’t need to spend hundreds of pounds on day a bachmann locomotive to make something as good as yours 😂 Living in Manchester I loved the class 24/25s trundling round the north west lol 😆