WildNorWester

Yes. That's why they trusted Devious Diesel, despite his 'we are superior' rhetoric.

To be honest, I have had the idea lingering for years. Only just got around to making him now.

YouTube video by WildNorWester Sodor the Modern Years: Behind the Scenes

I did a video showing how I make my episodes: youtu.be/Qw5fjf_QMpA?.... That's probably a good starting point.

Not yet.

Not exactly. Considering the short trips was what prompted me to look at what I was doing, and go back to the seasonal approach with shorter episodes.

That's what I thought. 🙂

You can probably guess who's doing each role.

I've decided to make Manx Island Rescue a post-season special. So I've now got two more episodes to write. One will be on the Arlesdale Railway, the other on the Skarloey.

Right now, I'm writing a scene where Sir Handel and Peter Sam do a 'good cop, bad cop' routine on Duncan.

#STMY #TTTE

Yeah, I've got plans for him. By which I mean I'll be doing more with him than HiT did.

Had a whole mini-series planned out for him before I decided to return to the seasonal approach. So I'll be reworking a few of those stories into the episodes.

Short version - he was leased to the NWR during WW2. British Rail terminated the lease in 1948 and forced him back to the Southern Region.

In the 1960s, Neville was rescued and restored in secret under BR's nose. He returned to service during the events of 'STEY: Darkest Hour/Desperate Times'.

I've done remakes of a couple of episodes as anniversary specials.

Hi all. I've decided to return to a seasonal approach for #STMY, as the mini-series format was not working for me. Full details and a casting call for the upcoming episodes are here: youtu.be/69vnjZJ4VFQ. #ttte

Thing is, the TVS-style models can still be used to tell realistic stories. I mean, the first couple of seasons of the TVS were realistic stories, because they were adapted from the RWS.

If you mean the visuals then yeah. That's mostly a question of taste, though.

Yep. There's a reason for that. 😉

I do follow the RWS canon and try to be realistic in my approach.

May 4th, 1945.

Yeah. I will admit, there's a few 'take that' moments towards Misty Island Rescue in this special.

A Bullied Q1 class is passing a small industrial tank engine. They're looking at each other and smiling, with their Thomas the Tank Engine style faces.

Two trains crossing on a viaduct. One is a passenger train heading away from the camera, the other is a goods train loaded with scrap going in the other direction.

A tugboat with a Thomas-style face is looking cheesed off.

Two tank engines with Thomas the tank engine style faces are looking at each other, worried.

More shots from 'Manx Island Rescue'. By now, the story has moved into 1945. #ttte #stmy

We'll be seeing that in his mini-series, 'Neville the Wartime Engine'.

Nonexistent.

If I ever do bring them into my series, it'll be as logging locos that Flying Scotsman encountered during his USA tour - he'll be telling Gordon and the other NWR engines about them.

You'll be seeing more of her - she's the main character in this special, along with Ten Cents and Wendy.

She was Arry and Bert's precdecessor at the Kildane Ironworks. She disappeared around the same time a Warship class diesel, no. 810, visited Sodor. Fate unknown.

It was for camoflauge and to save money & resources during WW2. It wasn't mandatory, as you can see with Wendy. Her owners couldn't be bothered to paint her black.

That's also why Ten Cents is in dark blue. Camoflauge against the water.

Ten Cents the tugboat is in a harbour, talking to Gordon the blue engine and a small tender engine named Lucy. They are all painted in wartime black.

Ten Cents is pulling a barge away from a dock. In the background, a weathered green tank engine is shunting trucks.

Overall view of a harbour. Thomas the Tank Engine is glaring at a small tender engine named Lucy.

James the red engine is glaring at a small tender engine named Lucy as she goes past.

Some more shots from Manx Island Rescue. That first one shows the first time Ten Cents met Gordon. #TTTE #STMY

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Hi all. There's been a minor update to my Tumblr blog. The address for it is now www.tumblr.com/wildnorweste.... This is where I'll be posting all my updates and so on. #TTTE #STMY

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It's in the late 1940s.

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He does, yes.

As Edward ran ahead with the train Locke stayed at the back, as brakevans often do, and kept an eye on the trucks as they trundled down the mainline.

If ever one tried to play a trick he's ring out his little bell & Edward would promptly bump them to make them settle down.

Fair enough. So in this scheme, Neville and Thomas would be unrelated? Different designer and plans but same builder?

The cousins thing? Thomas and Neville were built in the same workshops. So second cousins, I suppose.