Franco

Well, green is quite unusual for an italian locomotive.

For most part of their career they were painted in two tones brown officially defined as "castano e isabella". Starting from the '80 some were repainted in grey with orange and red stripes equipped for push and pull services, some were repainted in a simplified livery being "isabella" only (the lighter brown tone) or in XMPR livery (white with blue and green stripes).

So much depends in which period you want to place your model as many external details changed trough times.

Very nice work! Sorry I couldn't help you with your tender (but wasn't my fault)

In case you'd go for an italian engine I'm always here

Those wooden frames and the glass work are absolutely fantastic!

First of all thanks everyone for these beautiful pictures/films and whatever else

Then a couple of little questions: I've noticed that the lever of the steam regulator works "downwards," I mean that engineer pushes it down to open and draws it up to close steam it sounds quite strange to me as I've always seen it the opposite for safety reason, then I haven't seen anything bridging the gap beetween cabin and tender sides like chains or bars was I right or was my sight?

Thanks in advance for your replies

Thanks both, I saw them sold under the "Graupner" brand at a reasonable price.

I'm trying to re-motor an old Lima ring type one in order to reduce its height. No matter about speed as I'm modelling narrow gauge prototypes (or like) in small spaces so there's really no need of going full throttle!

Stephen.

Hi Stephen I came across one of these motor/reductor do you think they are powerful enough for small locos ?

Four spirals on the Cuneo-Ventimiglia which is classified among Europe's most spectacular lines!

Motors are designed for 12V but often at 9V prototipical speed is easily reached and are anyway enough for me. My concerns weren't really about batteries overheathing but more toward receiver as (I think) will be under a much bigger stress than the one on your truck!

Thanks for the link, I found it very interesting. Beside many pros there are some cons, first prices are quite high but more than this I'm not so sure that all the apparatus could be fitted so easily in my models and (last but not least) I'm a bit worried about heating, do you have any experience on that?

Hi Giles,

First of all congratulation for your model, I'm new to this forum and, beside this, quite a dummy for whatever concerns "electrics".

Anyway I've been thinking about radio control for my locos since longtime, do you have any experience or do you think is possible? Iìm talking of narrow gauge models built on current HO chassis-

Thanks in advance