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Lane of Salisbury, 4719 |
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To prove that it wasn't
just a pipe-dream here's a photo of my
under-construction LNER Garratt in the foreground with a recently
built, and as yet unpainted, GW 26xx Aberdare. Both are
scratchbuilt (bar motors, wheels, etc., and the Aberdares
boiler fittings and buffers.
And here's 2395 pretty well
completed.
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And another loco takes
shape, this will be 46207 "Princess Arthur of Connaught" and has
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The
Princess (46207) is scratchbuilt - in fact it started life very many
years ago as a brass loco body and tender made by other hands
and
came to me about 40 years ago when a widow was disposing of her late
husbands modelling items to what was then my local
Club. It
then sat ignored in various drawers in three different houses for some
39 years. It came with a set of plates for 'Princess Arthur of
Connaught', but was in fact modelled on the original two Princesses -
so needed a complete re-work to suit the name, and all that
remains of the original now is the footplate, adapted to P4
gauge! The rest is nickel-silver.
Power is a large Portescap.
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Here's an essay in silver
and greys. The basis is a Pro-Scale A4 which when completely finished
will find a home on the Dukeries Group's layout Grescaster Yard. At the
moment it lacks couplings and the panel handles on the body. To
facilitate coping with 42 inch radius curves on the layout the 8 wheel
tender chassis is built as two linked bogies. While the only parts of
the kit chassis that were usable for 18.83mm gauge were the two frames,
I found the body and tender elements of the kit little problem -
although not Finney/Mitchell standard they were far better quality than
some and used a sensible thickness of brass. Perhaps the most
nerve-racking job was fretting out the two 'foxes from an old 'Kings
Cross' nameplate etch. The transfers are by Fox Transfers and are
really first class. As the prototype was of a purpose and period when
it would have been kept immaculate no attempt at weathering has been
contemplated.
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To replace David Lane (the
elder's) as yet progressing but unfinished T9 - which has reverted to a
more orthodox drive than that originally and optimistically intended -
an image of his Alan Gibson 2P is provided - and, yes, 545 was one of
the few to wear LMS crimson lake! Even that's been on the build for
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The O2 is an Alan Gibson kit with a Mashima 12x20 motor.
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The ER K1 is a DMR kit with a Mashima 14x24 motor.
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