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Amethyst Works

@b661sutton.bsky.social

(She/They)🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I clean real engines and dirty model ones, fuelled by caffeine and biscuits. Not to be trusted with fire.

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

And, to sign off the year, a couple of mischievous twins. The Rapido yellow Alfreds have become Bill and Ben! Hand-painted and weathered, they'll certainly prove trouble until I finish a Boco and Edward to rein them in...

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

She started off as a Rapido Wisbech bogie coach that someone (GBHtrain I think?) had done the main chopping to, then ended up with a friend and then me. I added the extra details after scouring pictures and drawings of the prototype, then repainted and weathered her in my usual fashion.

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Looks like I forgot to post in a wee while. Well, during this time I have been busy. Here's my Toby and Henrietta, products of Rapido Trains. The Toby was a simple repaint and weathering, Henrietta was a lot more involved...

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Thank you! Alas I do not, but that's something I aspire to when I have the room. As well as in 4mm scale, I have done some of the characters in N gauge, which was a fun challenge in the smaller scale

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

My own model of Duck (and Scruffey) making an appearance at the ExpoEM exhibition in early May

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

"Down by the cut", a drawing heavily inspired by an old canal basin near where I once lived. Maybe I'm feeling a bit homesick for a sight I'm too young to remember, or getting wistful over a railway most have long since forgotten, but it's one I wanted to capture in some form.

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

"Henry charges through Wellsworth with a newspaper train as Bear looks on" - Summer 1967

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Coincidentally, so did I

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

What if Auld Lang Syne was in comic/manga form? The combination of a recent trip to Edinburgh, a rewatch of @oldlongsign.bsky.social 's Auld Lang Syne series, a 7 hour train ride and a hangover created this...thing!

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I already had the bits to do this before I bashed a Bachmann Skarloey, and when that perished I decided to get on with this one. I raided the chimney and trailing wheels (as well as some details I previously added) from the original model, which now sits as a husk on my workbench

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

So, I've been playing around with 009, and by playing I mean going to town on this Meridian Models Talyllyn kit. It's running on a modified N-drive chassis and was certainly a fun project from start to finish. A nice little diversion that totally won't lead to more 009 antics...

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Amethyst Works @b661sutton.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Post your most popular art from Twitter ✨ It's the only popular post I can find of mine, and it dates back over 3 years ago! I've certainly done better since, in 2 different scales as well.

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