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Where, oh where would we be without the beauty and sanity of the Victorian steam locomotive Annie? Nothing on earth like it to enable us to cope when things fall to bits. All sorts of things surface from time to time in the UK- I have a foot pump labelled "PEC Marston NZ" and my brother has a 1/3 size Maori war canoe.... I'll post some more photos of the A class when it arrives. Best wishes J

It was me, Annie- I got it for £18 - a bargain, I think. Don't quite know what I'll do with it- if it IS 32mm gauge and 9mm scale then with 30" driving wheels in 7mm scale that's about 3'3". Hmm. Maybe if Dubs had built a slightly larger, standard gauge version? A new cab, lower boiler mountings, buffer beam and buffers? I think I see where this might be going.... Don't be cross Annie! TBH it will probably sit on my desk for a few years whilst I get through my other projects at a glacial pace.

This one's for Annie, maybe. A rather sweet little 0-4-0T from the Land of my father. I think it's an A class? Looks to me to be made to run on 0 gauge track but to a larger scale to suit prototype 3'6"? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285724346700?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11051.m43.l1123&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=a72c3e1970854a1f87f667fce3069abd&bu=44854541524&osub=-1~1&crd=20240226095043&segname=11051

I've not seen this thread before. This is real railway modelling! Wonderful stuff. Please keep up the good work! Ally Pally coming up- the MRC stand usually have some Triang Princesses going for a song.

That is beautiful!

Dear Gentlefolk Also posted in the Obituaries section. I am really sorry to have to pass on the sad news that Robert Fridd, Cardboard Wizard, painter and modelmaker of very great talent, blues musician, mentor and dear friend was "withdrawn with undue haste" at QEQM Hospital, Margate at 6am this morning. John M

Dear Gentlefolk I am really sorry to have to pass on the sad news that Robert Fridd, Cardboard Wizard, painter and modelmaker of very great talent, blues musician, mentor and dear friend was "withdrawn with undue haste" at QEQM Hospital, Margate at 6am this morning. John M

I found this in a book on traction engines last night- I don't think this one has appeared yet on this thread. Intended to be readily convertible back into a road locomotive.

Just spotted this on Ebay (oh- given recent correspondence on other threads I'm really tempted to say "A well known auction site"!) : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256392873958?hash=item3bb234c7e6:g:I9UAAOSwB6Jltsoc&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwHZgmzopjRBO7TMpicx1D3lYpQ8tnQUd3TK%2BEDvNRRPjaQ9%2B52LVO25FJYrwJRKx5jMHLJNYDWKWCdhEp9Xx%2BmXUctkRaooC%2BmAInkdsbFcyf1xvgyOUOocjYspBi465sX4mmErBM42ld1C3I6m2fz8yi2ACjvwMA%2Fvjo3SIjF751TZK%2FEVLaFs4hbYtpdPV6YOJVpb7Kfbhhstzsssf9UoBsZby63w%2FneWuGvd%2F4UAPZMd41dFn3crOmz%2Bem9zg2Q%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4zrwrawYw Must be of use to one of you chaps.

'fraid not Jeremy. Or Edward Longshanks for that matter. William McGonagall on the other hand...

I do feel the new P2 should have a name with Scottish connotations. All the original six did, and they were built for the Edinburgh - Aberdeen route. If we're going for royalty then Duke of Edinburgh surely far more appropriate than Prince of Wales. Or Bonnie Prince Charlie, come to that. Or if we're going down the Wolf of Badenoch road then how about Sawney Bean?

It's a book called "Mainline to Industry" by Frank Jones, Lightmoor Press, ISBN 1 899889 02 7. . A photographic record of Pre-Grouping and Big Four locos that were sold off into industry by the parent company. Worth getting if, like me, the real obscurities hit the spot. Some nice inspiration for this thread, I think!

Quite hard to find a prototype 0-6-0T with outside cylinders and an asymmetrical wheelbase, with the wider spacing at the rear. Here's one from the Prototype for Everything Dept.

Absolutely! Your children are the most important and worthwhile projects that you will ever undertake. They are still your children, be they 5 or 25, or older. Of course they will need your financial help whilst at Uni- even though sometimes they may not ask, if they worry about your own financial constraints. Some of them will be incredibly careful with every penny, and some unbelievably feckless- but you have brought them into the world and it's your duty to support them until you draw your last breath- or at very least until you are sure they are swimming along through life successfully. They inherit the world that we have made for them. They are the ones that will strive to sort out the messes that we have made.

I was thinking along the same lines. Alternatively, shorten the boiler to bring the firebox forwards a bit so that it sits over the space between the real pairs of coupled wheels. One of the Tyneside collieries converted a Metropolitan 4-4-0T into an 0-6-0 and the asymmetrical wheelbase looked pretty similar. There's a photo in "Main Line to Industry" I'll dig it out and post it when I get home.

...and this is a fine and different Lima 4F conversion. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395155337057?hash=item5c0117ef61:g:T5oAAOSwywllZxc2

Not a kitbash - but advertised as virtually a kit. What a wonderful thing this is- the photos really need careful scrutiny- and the description needs to be read properly. A huge amount of work and imagination has gone into this. Someone please buy it and do it some justice! One too many projects for me. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166114492100?hash=item26ad31fec4:g:XvgAAOSwZtVka1D1&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwCT1aMSg6pt3Au7KjnRZYyxy213qVj3XbTRJXmlT5RNbygueiCycs2aQEu7fSkJN7dELYyXxPY2Lu9InsXmMYxh%2BfAW0HjPmokTw2RJLcdtlhc81fRFHjBRc0X5LXWN0zKPXs2LjVKL%2BZa8HN14wEqz7c6aSBlnWbnhs8oaENduUuhNQj3GijomNDP3UuKN93y73oHDuNISJlphlcuXxEaVCbHOwIKzB5kxZmQwD5qemLVcjOnCkQkWTgWOudulipQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8yK4q6nYw

Abso-bloomin-lutely gorgeous models- an inspiration and a huge encouragement to the rest of us to persevere!

Oh Wow! This is, as Ben B says, tailor-made for the Steampunk community! What a wonderful beast!

Pretty close to TT120 too!

Very well said! An articulate and cogent reply - and I heartily agree with you. Innocence is the most precious, most fragile thing we will ever have and it is so easily lost.

It is indeed! The Lesney Santa-Fe and Duke of Connaught are very plentiful- I have had two of the Santa-Fe locos since childhood so felt that the worst of them could be sacrificed "For the greater good". The tender is from an Atlas Nord De-Glehn Atlantic that I made into a model of "La France" a year or so ago (It's on one of the 3mm scale threads). Both the Lesney locos were made, I think, of odd scales so they would fit in a standard box. The Duke of Connaught is to approx. 2.3mm to the foot. I have four in varying condition, with the vague intention of making a detailed static loco and tender one day, maybe to go in the background of my (one day) 0 gauge layout. As I say, they are pretty thick on the ground- I bought a D of C (missing trailing axle) for £1 from Scott's Salvage in Cliftonville not long ago and there was a manky Santa Fe there the other day for £3. Loads on Ebay.

Of course the past within living memory has terrible faults- children died from polio, offices were full of cigarette smoke, racism, sexism and homophobia were rife and if you were wrongly convicted of a serious crime you were strung up- and boy oh boy could you fall through the safety net (anyone watched "Cathy come home"?) - but it was OUR past, warts and all and it's gone, along with the station buildings and railway infrastructure, museums, libraries, cottage hospitals, small shops that don't sell phone parts, tattoos or nail makeovers, and contentedness with less material consumption. Yes, the asylums were not ideal but they were generally a safe haven for those less able to cope - "Care in the community" has so completely failed as a replacement and consequently a vast amount of police time and resources goes on dealing with the fallout from this. Above all, what is missing from today's world is innocence- it rapidly diminishes from the moment a parent gives a toddler an iphone to keep them quiet. The growing child is burdened with all the world's troubles and quickly trapped in a cycle of cyber competitiveness and social media fear and lives in a false world where there is always an undo button if you don't get something right. No- of course the past wasn't better- but I still miss it.

...and a plea for less talk of Pugbashing from Sir Percival Gough-Blankett (it's pronounced "Guff" btw).

As for the Pugbash, well - a good old Airfix job as a starting point plus - well - you know what they say about making omelettes...