Steve Cook
Flying Squad
Fancy a distraction for the day? Get a brew on and watch this .
Nothing else to say other than utterly wonderful
Steve
Nothing else to say other than utterly wonderful
Steve
Got 11 Mins To Spare? (7/8 Ng In Garden)
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Phill Dyson
Western Thunderer
Great stuff Steve 
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Simon Dunkley
Guest
Relax, Neil: none are currently in production.
Harvey Watkins did a batch in the 90s, but the one in the photo is a one-off, using an Accucraft boiler/burner on a Roundhouse chassis. It was intended to be a prototype for a batch for commercial release (I think, but am not 100% certain, by IP Models), but for some reason it never went that far.
I reckon his garden must be of a reasonable size, too - even little 7/8" scale locos are not small!
Harvey Watkins did a batch in the 90s, but the one in the photo is a one-off, using an Accucraft boiler/burner on a Roundhouse chassis. It was intended to be a prototype for a batch for commercial release (I think, but am not 100% certain, by IP Models), but for some reason it never went that far.
I reckon his garden must be of a reasonable size, too - even little 7/8" scale locos are not small!
eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Excellent stuff, but it must 'ave been cold there, that driver looks frozen stiff 
ATB, Col
ATB, Col
Neil
Western Thunderer
My piggy bank breathes a sigh of relief.
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Simon Dunkley
Guest
How do feel about quarry Hunslet's?
Jordan
Mid-Western Thunderer
Certainly is!!Nothing else to say other than utterly wonderful
It reminds me of an article in RM by P.D.Hancock, about the garden line he built after moving out of the Flats where he built the Craig & Mertonford, and how live steam models felt so much closer to operating a real railway, partly because so much of the preparation involved - raising steam, oiling up, etc, is what happens on a real railway, and is lost with indoor, electric models.
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Simon Dunkley
Guest
Ah. That's an interesting connection, and one to be proud of!
My only connection is that there was a photo of the brakevan in the Modeller once, related to a review of the book which is classed as a magazine "special issue", and it formed the basis of my first scratchbuilt wagon body, in 40 thou plasticard with paper (embossed from behind with a ball pen to produce "rivets") ironwork. It was nominally 7mm scale, on a Triang-Hornby wagon chassis, and trundled along behind what had once been an H0 Mehantehknika diesel switcher, which had been fitted with a new cab - more 40 thou plasticard, plus some wire and tissue paper to represent an open cab. That was my sole narrow gauge modelling experience for many years. Sadly, I didn't keep it, but memory suggests it was mostly OK.
My only connection is that there was a photo of the brakevan in the Modeller once, related to a review of the book which is classed as a magazine "special issue", and it formed the basis of my first scratchbuilt wagon body, in 40 thou plasticard with paper (embossed from behind with a ball pen to produce "rivets") ironwork. It was nominally 7mm scale, on a Triang-Hornby wagon chassis, and trundled along behind what had once been an H0 Mehantehknika diesel switcher, which had been fitted with a new cab - more 40 thou plasticard, plus some wire and tissue paper to represent an open cab. That was my sole narrow gauge modelling experience for many years. Sadly, I didn't keep it, but memory suggests it was mostly OK.