The GC and Met in OO

Good luck with that.

A feature of the B3 was the very short connecting rods and very long piston rods, I guess Triang Princess rods would be pretty close. The long Triang Hall rods look wrong to me.

 

What was it hacked from?  I quite fancy building one (or two)

Its beginning to look good, I must admit I like following your progress along with that of Paul from Foster Street fame as you both seem to produce brilliant locomotives from sources most of us ignore

A feature of the B3 was the very short connecting rods and very long piston rods, I guess Triang Princess rods would be pretty close. The long Triang Hall rods look wrong to me.

 

What was it hacked from?  I quite fancy building one (or two)

 

So far as I can tell, the cab and firebox were bashed from a Triang Princess, the boiler barrel is a length of aluminium tube and the whole sits upon a Triang B12 or Hall chassis.  When I bought it it fitted with the leading bogie and driving wheels from a Black 5!  In my previous attempt at it I replaced the bogie with one from a B12, and the driving wheels with spares for a Hornby A1/A3.  The tender is a resin one which used to be made by Jaycraft (for some reason these turn up more often than the D10 body they were paired with....)

 

 

Its beginning to look good, I must admit I like following your progress along with that of Paul from Foster Street fame as you both seem to produce brilliant locomotives from sources most of us ignore

 

Thank you very much!