7mm Gwr Crocodile

[Ian G]

After many months of study I have got back into my shed for a spot of model making, I have a few unfinished projects, but decided to build one of my purchaces from Reading the other day.
This is my second kit of the croc and one of my first large brass kits.
It has taken me about 6 hours to press out all the rivet detail, clean and fold the main parts in preperation for the attack of the soldering iron.

 

[Ian G]

An hour of soldering tonight got me this.

Ian G

 

[Ian G]

Whilst searching through many sites looking at pictures of the croc I have not found any that where piped air or vac, on one web site I have found a departmental yellow one, one question has anyone got a pic of a piped one.

Ian G

 

[hrmspaul]

Crocodile is a GWR generic term for a wide variety of 4 wheel and bogie Weltrols. I did surprisingly well for photographing GWR ones http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/gwrcrocodile but I very much doubt that any had any form of piping. No sign of any in the bible
Atkins, A. G. Beard, W. Tourret, R. (1998) GWR Goods Wagons A historical survey. Tourret Publishing, Abingdon, Oxon. 530 pages ISBN 0-905878-07-8


Paul Bartlett