Saving OLIVER | Cheap Knock-off to Deluxe Model | Wooden Railway Custom Restoration 

Oliver: “Why can’t I move my eyes, I’m constantly looking left! I can’t stop smiling, is this an internal Dialogue??! *HATSUNE MIKU!”*

fyi these bootleg wooden railway engines are painted and riddled with lead paint. Do be careful when working with these bootlegs!

What a terrific idea and execution. Bravo! It's nice to see something that's usually thrown to the wayside turn into something great

8:56 As a locomotive enthusiast, I can tell you that's a top feed

We need more people like you! This is beautiful!

I love how you were able to breathe new life into one of those horrible little knockoffs. Adding Oliver’s name underneath was also a really nice touch. Great work!

You know, this is probably the one time a knock off is more accurate than a wooden railway model.

this is amazing, i love how you turn cheap knock off to deluxe, it is great to see these.

Seriously I love how well your Custom Oliver turned out. You gave this crappy looking toy train a Great Western Glow Up!

You’ve inspired me I’ve done a oliver and James but seriously we need more of these videos

I can’t believe this “guy” makes better versions of knock offs also this is the best mod I ever saw

This is why knock offs were made, customs

That’s far and away the best wooden railway Oliver I’ve ever seen!

One word. FAN-FLIPPIN-TASTIC!!!!!!!!!

Great job, Geoh! You really took this model to a new level. Enjoying this new style of customs content!

That is SO Beautiful! There is only 2 ways about this: the wrong way or The Great Western Way; which thus is the Great Western Way!

That little rectangular thing in front of his dome is a feed pipe, if I remember correctly. It’s also noticeable on the LMS Black 5.

Another Hard Modeling Journey. Your Take on Oliver's Wheels Is Absolutely Amazing.

Excellent Custom! I do suggest to add cleartape over the decals. It serves as a slight protection incase you spill something on it. In this case, I add my decals on my customs after they're all painted and clearcoated. Anyways, seeing Cosplayers with Oliver was super unreal, I hope you had fun!

You are an artist, you know how to make models and customs, you deserve an Oscar Fight me

I've said it once, I'll say it again. The moment I saw this video's thumbnail, I'm like "This guy really makes cool stuff, I'll subscribe to him." This guy will be one of my favorite TTTE Custom Makers.

Pure beauty and from a knockoff no less

oh this is amazing, i cant wait for future models you make, stepney would be awesome to see!

An amazing custom. I definitely would like to see your process on making decals.

I love how you turn this knock off toy into something else special

Love it! Hope to see you do more characters. I'm enjoying watching these very much.

That engine looked so perfect nonetheless 😊

This was an awesome journey to walk us through. I have recently discovered your channel and really appreciate the crispness to each of your customs. The time you put in makes them super impressive. Awesome work!

this looks absolutely phenomenal! love all the new horizons music you chose! it fits perfectly!

"Mr Olivah, you look magnificent!" "Thank you Toad! I certainly feel it too!"

Loving these customs, best wishes mate. 😊

I am in absolute awe with this! This is unrecognisable I can't believe that terrible knock off became this beautiful model! You truly knocked it out of the park!

You should do a video about making a wooden railway Whiff look 100% accurate just like in the show

My goodness Geoh you’re definitely one of the best custom makers I’ve seen good job on Oliver and I wish the toy companies hired you to make good products like this and do you think you will restore more wooden knockoffs? edit: YES I’D LOVE TO SEE A DECAL TUTORIAL

I absolutely love this channel. Very inspirational and very well through out. The way you edit your videos makes it very easy to follow along. Good stuff, looking forward for more vids

I think us in the Thomas fandom should start using knock offs for customs more often and keep up the good work man you got talent

Just a tip. If your not going to use a air brush, I recommend dry brushing. It may take a little longer but, it saves paint, gives you more control, and makes the end product look smoother _WITHOUT_ having to sand it! Also next time add the primer to the parts before gluing them together(obviously don't paint the sections of wood that are going to touch and be glued) I find that doing this helps me find mistakes faster earlier on. GREAT VIDEO!!!

10:56 - I love how I hear Woody's crying in the background.

That bit on Oliver's boiler is his sand box.

From a nasty knock off to a perfectly good replica you sir really have talent.

*Duck:* Now that's the Great Western Way!

I don't know what to say! This is too astonishing for words! Will you be doing similar processes to other wooden Thomas engines too? I'd love to see more!

Great model! The he proportions are really good!

Amazing work, he looks amazing!

"I thought if I had his eyes looking forward it'd look a little odd and creepy" _The forever cursed Tomy Oliver flashbacks_

Awesome my dude

Amazing job man

8:58 That's the cover for the top feed and it's pretty common on both GWR locomotives and those on the LMS from Stanier onwards. Henry and Duck also have top feed covers.

This is perfect.

This is Incredible!, Looks Amazing too.😃👍

Wow, that is insane! This is a level of quality custom that I could never hope to match. Although I did manage to make a pretty good custom Mavis using a knockoff, however it's nowhere near the level of effort as this.

a beautiful watch, honestly this is the best wooden railway oliver i've ever seen i always was intrigued by the idea of using these knockoffs as bases for customs, but i never bothered to try it cus i think i heard somewhere they had lead paint? and i just didnt wanna risk it. but with how nicely this turned out, maybe theyre more capable than i woulda thought.

This is a great custom man for my favorite character you definitely did him Justice. I thought the 2014 2015 model was perfect but then I realized it doesn't have a firebox. Like your City of Truro custom you knocked this one out of the park. Personally I think Duck should be next so that you can round out the the Great Western engines. Keep up the good work man.

This model is beautiful :D

This is amazing! Would buy TWR products if they looked as good as this. Impressive work!

THAT KNOCK-OFF WOODEN OILVER LOOKS OFF BUT THE CUSTOM FIXED VERSION LOOKS MUCH BETTER. IT LOOKS JUST LIKE THE SHOW

Lovely..!

Nice video!

Awesome video geoh

amazing oliver

4:28 OH YEEEEEEAH

4:36 never thought I’d see the day where a thomas character would be seen next to an aquabat

The thing in between the funnel and dome is a sand box for wet tracks

I’d be proud to see a tutorial on decals, and maybe a custom of Dudley made from Gordon (engine) and Emily (tender)

Very nice model and Yea I would be interested to see a video on how the decals were made

“He’s got no dome never trust a domeless engine” Gordon circa 1985-

Love the video! Like how you turned something shit into something great:D

4:41 the crossover we never needed... I guess Oliver knows two birds now. Duck and Honk. _I wish I wasn't such a nerd and realized that was Mari's voice clip_ the closest thing i'll get to doing love live cosplay atm is Dia... and that's cause she's the closest character I look like lmao. (Umi, Yohane, Maki and Mari are on my bucket list for ones I wanna truly do) REAL TALK THOUGH SUPERB MODEL, I love this so so much. I wish more people would do this... I'd have no idea it was a knock off from the first glance. better than my Oliver restoration I did.

The thing between Oliver's Chimney and dome is a topfeed, a device that helps mix the cold water going into the hot boiler. Henry has one too (after his rebuild).

Once again, it's fans like you I can count on to make high-quality Thomas Wooden Railway models, which is more than can be said for the official company. Heck, if I were in charge of Thomas Wooden Railway, I would have had an Oliver model like this available for commercial sale in Early 2023, most likely bundled with Toad.

Amazing

10:58 Hearing Woody's voice just makes this funnier.

YES !!! show the sticker decals tutorial!!! A+++++++++++++++++++ incurable video by the way !!! nicely DONE!!!!!

Your oliver is quite smart, aslo the bit in front of the dome is a top feed henry has one and so does a realistic duck.

I think you need to produce toys like these. Their just perfect.

This is the most accurate wooden model of Oliver The Western Engine

This guy polished a turd-of-an-engine and made a masterpiece If I would make one change, though, I personally think the back wheel should’ve been a trackmaster pull a long wheel. If you’re unfamiliar, they’re kind of like take-n-play wheels, but designed to be slightly bigger and fit on trackmaster track. As such, they are noticeably smaller in size than wooden railway wheels, but close enough, that the perfectly represent bogey wheels in wooden railway scale.

Now I know this normally doesn't fit well with wooden railway, but if you really wanted to, add some custom windows like on the Tomy 1998 Oliver but this is just a suggestion!

It looks very good and you got a Perfect Volks vagen Willow Green like What they have used on the model series

I would definitely like to see how you’re going to tackle Duck, considering that he doesn’t have any knockoff in wooden railway that comes to mind. My best guess is to use another knockoff Oliver and possibly an Edward for the face? (IDK, I just want to see the original face design again.)

How ironic that 3 out of the wooden railway customs he made are great western

Maybe duck could be fixed next, to go along with his Great western companion

I like this oliver model!

ALRIGHT I SEE YOU I SEE YOU!! 😍😍

Honestly i would want to see how you would make the marklin engine, also geoh i believe you should keep the stickers as is as it gives off a nice two-tone livery vibe

If possible you could do old and new Henry the green engine By the way, it turned out beautiful Oliver keep it up ❤❤❤

impressive

You should make all of the Wooden Railway engines look like their TV show counterparts because Wooden Railway Donald and Douglas don't have funnels

maybe in the future, a brio face could works! but it's just a suggestion

The Thing Between The Funnel And Dome Is Called A Top Feed

Why did he wear thomas' dome 😭 3:14 no wonder why his name is Oliver. 4:13 Oliver explores comic Con. 5:06 YOU MURDERED HIM... 6:48 nice! 11:29 NO NO NO!! 12:10 I LOVE that custom name print

Oliver went WHERE? An anime convention? Oh god don’t tell duck

8:59 That's his sand dome, it holds sand for grip on wet rails

Oliver the great western engine

There's no buffers... other than that 200% amazing!

14:36 foreshadow

Oliver The Great Western Engine

The part between the funnel and the dome is called a top feed

G'day! Overall some nice work, but I've got a few minor tips I'd like to give (I know almost zero about neither trains nor Thomas the Tank Engine since the last time I watched it willingly was like, age 2, but I know a decent amount about painting, sculpting and modelling due to my experience painting Gundam model kits and custom Transformers). Apologies in advance for the wall of text! You've done a pretty good job all things considered, but here's some things I'd suggest: rather than putting paint directly on all the parts, priming them first then painting them would give a much nicer result. The paint you're using seems like you're laying it on very thick, as well - watering them down with either water or thinner seems like a better move alongside giving _multiple thin coats_ in perpendicular directions (so if you painted from top-to-bottom on one coat, go from left-to-right on the next) that way you can minimise brush strokes and will leave a very smooth surface finish. For water-based paints, I'd suggest using something like Vallejo's Model Colour line. Masking off the pieces with some modeller's masking tape (like Tamiya's) would be good too, as some of the lines are a touch shaky. For putting lighter colours (such as red or yellow) over dark colours (like black), a couple thin coats of white or very light grey beneath the colour you want to lay over it is recommended, as it will make the colour much more vibrant. Trust me on that one, it gives a brilliant result. Instead of using Crayola's air-dry clay for the top dome hump thing (told you I know nothing about railways and railway related things), something with a bit more sturdiness would be a much better move, such as Milliput or another brand of epoxy putty like Apoxie Sculpt. Milliput is very cheap and easy to find (at least here in Australia, not too sure about Canada or other parts of North America), and comes in a variety of colours and finishes for different use cases. Finally, for spray painting - the way you're laying it on is a bit heavy. Spraying light coats in a large sweeping motion over the piece from much further away instead of giving it a big ol' up close ass blast will give a nice clean, smooth final result. That way you wouldn't have lost so much definition in the face sculpt. I wish you luck on your next go around!

Much better than the kid who made a very bad knock of Gordon custom with very thick stripes.