Scot
I do like the look of your digitally bashed 4-4-0 with the taller cab - to me it is how a small 2 foot or 30 inch gauge loco should look. But I am familiar with such small locos, take for example the 2 foot gauge loco "Cairns" at the Illawarra light Railway Museum near Woollongong, NSW, Australia. See www.ilrms.com.au/cairns.htm Quite a different loco I know (it's an 0-6-0) but note the cab height relative to the rest of the loco. The proportions of the Bachmann loco and your version with the higher cab seem right to me.
I can appreciate those who are more familiar with larger 4-4-0s wanting one that looks like them. Whether your original digitally bashed loco (with the lower cab) would look OK alongside other ON30 locos is hard to tell unless some-one actually makes one and photos it together with other ON30 locos. I thought the issue should be raised for any-one contemplating such a conversion to consider, although the answer is up to each person, on the principle that if it looks right to you, it is right.
Hamish
I do like the look of your digitally bashed 4-4-0 with the taller cab - to me it is how a small 2 foot or 30 inch gauge loco should look. But I am familiar with such small locos, take for example the 2 foot gauge loco "Cairns" at the Illawarra light Railway Museum near Woollongong, NSW, Australia. See www.ilrms.com.au/cairns.htm Quite a different loco I know (it's an 0-6-0) but note the cab height relative to the rest of the loco. The proportions of the Bachmann loco and your version with the higher cab seem right to me.
I can appreciate those who are more familiar with larger 4-4-0s wanting one that looks like them. Whether your original digitally bashed loco (with the lower cab) would look OK alongside other ON30 locos is hard to tell unless some-one actually makes one and photos it together with other ON30 locos. I thought the issue should be raised for any-one contemplating such a conversion to consider, although the answer is up to each person, on the principle that if it looks right to you, it is right.
Hamish