Steamport Southport Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 They are occasionally available. But you've got to express an interest. Any excess go on the "available" list. http://www.alangibsonworkshop.com/ Current list of what is available here. There was more recently but look like they sold during the virus panic buying. There was some GWR tanks and a Stanier Mogul a few weeks ago. LNWR Coal Tank 4M161 S&DJR/LMS Class 7F 2-8-0 locomotive 4M31 & 4M35 7mm LNER E4 4MPK20 Jason 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 16, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 16, 2020 6 hours ago, MonsalDan said: I hope that's not the case with regards to Alan Gibson kits. If the orders are there then surely they could make a batch if profitable? I think the issue is time. Please correct me if I'm under a misapprehension but the impression I get is that Colin Seymore is working his socks off keeping up with demand for wheels and other basic components, particularly at present - see http://www.alangibsonworkshop.com/ - so production of a batch of kits would be a major distraction that might well not turn the same profit as the regular stuff. I think he's in the classic one-man-band dilemma of success but inability to expand. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zunnan Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Quite coincidentally while letting Yourfacetube play through in the background, up popped a video at random. There is some lovely footage of the 2228 class to be found from 37:10 on this Railway Roundabout... 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonsalDan Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, Compound2632 said: I think the issue is time. Please correct me if I'm under a misapprehension but the impression I get is that Colin Seymore is working his socks off keeping up with demand for wheels and other basic components, particularly at present - see http://www.alangibsonworkshop.com/ - so production of a batch of kits would be a major distraction that might well not turn the same profit as the regular stuff. I think he's in the classic one-man-band dilemma of success but inability to expand. Fair enough, I wasn't aware it was a single man operation. Must be very busy with all those wheels! Hopefully we get some of those kits some day though. Edited August 16, 2020 by MonsalDan 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted August 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2020 On 10/08/2020 at 18:47, NHY 581 said: Alternatively.......( just a guess...) Buy 58072 and 1303. Swap smokebox/boiler/firebox assembly from 1303 with that of 58072 making good as required. Add lining to 1303 boiler. Reassemble left overs and research suitable identity. Rob. . I was considering this, but the photos of the engineering prototypes earlier in this thread show that the tank tops are moulded as part of the boiler, so it seems it wouldn't just be a case of swapping components. BTW this is a perfectly sensible design choice as there looks to be a skirt between the boiler cladding and the tank tops. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Flying Pig said: I was considering this, but the photos of the engineering prototypes earlier in this thread show that the tank tops are moulded as part of the boiler, so it seems it wouldn't just be a case of swapping components. BTW this is a perfectly sensible design choice as there looks to be a skirt between the boiler cladding and the tank tops. On the engines as originally built, the boiler cladding made a reverse curve where it met the tank top, so sitting on the tank top. Photos showing the tank tops of the real engines are scarce but I've found one that clearly shows this. Looking back at photos of the EPs posted in March 2019, Bachmann appear to have modelled this correctly. I am uncertain of the arrangement on the Belpaire-boilered engines. [F. James, D. Hunt and R.J. Essery, Midland Engines No. 1 (Wild Swan, 1999) reproduction of Drg. 93-3840, pp. 18-19 and photo p. 47.] Edited August 25, 2020 by Compound2632 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 Some more 1532 Class action, this time at Bradford in 1910. Manningham's No. 1278 (pre-1907 No. 1544) is seen heading out for Leeds with the St Pancras dining car express, while another member of the class shunts some ECS out of the station. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brossard Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 I love things like this. It's like you are getting in a time machine. I chuckled at the opening scene where it looks like a crowd of people were escorting the plow. 1 man (and a team of horses) working, ten spectators. John 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2020 I didn't even realise these had been released! When did that happen? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 9, 2020 2 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: I didn't even realise these had been released! When did that happen? Between 1881 and 1893. 1 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted September 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2020 3 hours ago, Captain Kernow said: I didn't even realise these had been released! When did that happen? I'm not sure they are, seems to be mostly speculative discussion? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2020 On 09/09/2020 at 00:09, brossard said: I love things like this. It's like you are getting in a time machine. I chuckled at the opening scene where it looks like a crowd of people were escorting the plow. 1 man (and a team of horses) working, ten spectators. John Gaffer, driver, fettler, snowman, two snowman's mates and a lad. The others might be casual spectators but could equally well be official gawpers-on. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2020 10 hours ago, Barry Ten said: I'm not sure they are, seems to be mostly speculative discussion? Well, I've since checked and they seem to be listed on the Kernow website! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2020 Still just pre order though C’pn 21 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: Well, I've since checked and they seem to be listed on the Kernow website! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted September 10, 2020 Moderators Share Posted September 10, 2020 11 hours ago, Barry Ten said: I'm not sure they are, seems to be mostly speculative discussion? Not released yet but I expect to see the review sample in about 4 weeks which means the shelf stock may be about 8-10 weeks. 5 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, AY Mod said: Not released yet but I expect to see the review sample in about 4 weeks which means the shelf stock may be about 8-10 weeks. Edited September 10, 2020 by NHY 581 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2020 Where;s the icon for "disturbing"/"triggered"/"can't unsee" when you need it. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2020 5 hours ago, PaulRhB said: Still just pre order though C’pn Doh! Thanks Paul. I'm not even sure that I really need one now. Although I still have Bleakhouse Road, the S&DJR side of things is rather dormant at the moment, with the focus on Bethesda Sidings and (soon, I hope), Callow Lane. I suppose I could get one to convert it to P4 for Callow Lane. What I don't want to do is repeat my usual behaviour of succumbing to the natural allure of the loco, only to send it off with a load of other stuff, virtually unused and hardly ever taken out of it's box, to Hattons Secondhand Department a few years later. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2020 34 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: I'm not even sure that I really need one now. Although I still have Bleakhouse Road, I’d sit down with a nice pasty and all will become clear . . . so which livery will it end up in? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2020 3 hours ago, Captain Kernow said: What I don't want to do is repeat my usual behaviour of succumbing to the natural allure of the loco, only to send it off with a load of other stuff, virtually unused and hardly ever taken out of it's box, to Hattons Secondhand Department a few years later. Yes - familiar sentiments here, usually whenever its something pretty/pre-grouping/limited/industrial etc. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2020 4 hours ago, PaulRhB said: I’d sit down with a nice pasty and all will become clear . . . so which livery will it end up in? I've learnt my lesson with the pretty liveries now, so it can only be a BR lined black example, if I go for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2020 Just now, Captain Kernow said: I've learnt my lesson with the pretty liveries now, so it can only be a BR lined black example, if I go for it. It is pretty, isn't it? LNWR livery suits most locomotives but especially Victorian tank engines. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2020 23 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: I've learnt my lesson with the pretty liveries now, so it can only be a BR lined black example, if I go for it. Same here......unless they release a Prussian Blue jobbie......then it will go wrong.......again.. Rob. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Us when they appear.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Popular Post AY Mod Posted October 12, 2020 Moderators Popular Post Share Posted October 12, 2020 Lovely little fella... The review will be in BRM December at the end of this month. 32 2 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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