*THIS VIDEO IS A RE-UPLOAD OF THE ORIGINAL posted on February 4, 2022. How I built everyone's favorite dockyard diesel. ♫ MUSIC: /0:01 Sunshower - Home /0:36 Jack A Tar - Toucan Pirates /3:59 Salty - Instrumental - One Tram Band
I kinda wished they still used the Season 4 Models after Magic Railroad then they would have had more interactions. Still use the new models by all means the have the old model againest the Standard gauge engines like in Season 5.
Salty is definitely my favorite Diesel on Sodor. You did a great job, especially with the weathering. I love how in your personal AU, the engines aren't alive, but workers swear they can hear Salty singing anyway. It's exactly the kind of spooky tale he would tell.
Salty is another favorite character of mine as well as my favorite diesel character. I really love the weathering detail you gave to this custom RWS model of his real counterpart. I also had the same headcanon idea of his arrival in 1973 (around the time of events of S6).
Every time someone mentions Heljan, I cry, because I REALLY want a Heljan Co-Bo to make Bo-Co. and they were the only ones who made a OO/HO model worthy for Bo-Co. Heljan, plz bring back the Co-Bos.
Toby and Salty were too precious but I just love how Salty is being a Pirate at the docks telling stories about Pirates looking for treasures and more! P.s. I'll be waiting for the Scottish Twins :'))
Salty, as always, looks fantastic. If you ever plan to make a character like Rosie, it could get interesting. The 07s replaced the US dock tanks in real life,and she could potentially have some one-sided beef with him for replacing her and her siblings at Southampton.
Really nice work on the weathering. Industrial gear tends to be hard-ridden, and something being used on a dockyard especially would be seeing a lot of opportunities to accumulate grime with very little downtime. It creates an interesting contrast to have all that mud and oil on top of a bright and colorful paintscheme.
Mavis is the OG diesel for me, but I do love Salty thanks to living in his home town, (city,) and I own a Heljan 07 for creating him myself. Sadly though, I recently purchased a heljan 165DE to expand my Ruston collection and it was a pile of garbage. It got returned and I had to have a refund as there were issues with every other model that the shop had in stock. For that reason, I'm very wary of touching anything else that Heljan touches. Now I just need to wait for Rapido to get on and release their model of the original class 04 with cow catchers and skirts
My favorite thing to do with models is to weather them, the only stuff I don't touch is steam locomotives, I do a fictional heritage railroad that shows a lot of love and care to the steam locomotives, but overlook all the diesel traction that calls the road home, so they range from absolutely filthy to having a bit of grime and soot in the hard to reach areas.
Haha love this. I grew up with the original TtTE series, I didn't realise it was watched anywhere outside the UK. Nice work recreating Salty and crafting your lore. However, I'd probably better not mention Tidmouth Harbour Authority... 🤫
Something interesting is that Heljan have actually made a model of No. 2991 in the light green livery of Eastleigh Works, where, as we know, the diesel is based today
Salty is definitely my favorite diesel engine in the franchise. I like the idea of Salty being assigned in Tidmouth Harbor rather than Brendem in the show to make it different for once!
This video introduced me to this model and when I saw the lights I knew I just had to get it for Christmas! Probably my best model although the couplings were impossible to fit in. I had to sand a slightly smaller set of couplings and jam it in
2:02 I headcanon that the little blue tank engine that taunted James in _Troublesome Trucks_ is the Tidmouth Harbor engine. (This role was taken by Thomas in the TV show.) Actually, he’s one of them. Because Tidmouth is so big and busy, it has two engines working on it: the little blue tank engine from the book, and the dark green tank engine from the pop-up book version, _James the Red Engine and the Troublesome Trucks._ I haven’t thought of a name for the blue one, but due to the resemblance between them I’ve stolen the name Peckett from Victor Tanzig for the dark green one. I can’t help it. I’m terrible at coming up with new names and the similarities between the two are so great that my brain refuses to disassociate the two. My headcanon for the harbor at Brendam is that originally it was serviced by whichever of the two Manning Wardle ‘Q’ Class engines owned by the Wellsworth & Suddery Railway happened to be down there at the moment. These two, named William and Charles, were sent away for some serious upgrades when the NWR expanded Brendam Docks, which is why Salty was purchased. Years later, they would return to Sodor, having been converted into (comparatively) newer Manning Wardle ‘L’ Class engines.
If you don't mind me asking, are you planning on making Rosie, Paxton, Sidney, Phillip, or any other small tank engine/diesel engine? The only reason I ask is because if Salty was really bought specifically for the dock work at tidmouth, then who will handle shunting coaches around tidmouth Station?
If I were to make a Salty custom I'd have him be a Class 14, conveniently Heljan does one in red (D9523) but annoyingly Heljan 14s are rare as hens teeth at the moment
Tug you need to make porter to go with him you could make him look like b.e.d.t. 15 you could use either the rivarossi model 0-6-0t dockside porter or the bachmann one
I'm surprised you didn't make Murdoch he and the other late classic season newbies could pass as the reverend coming up with new characters but not writing the books gave the engines to Britt Alcroft
When will you reupload "why the Thomas 2021 reboot is doomed to fail", "The 11 Thomas episodes that you should watch", and every thoughts on video you made before making the BWBA rant?
