Marc Dobson
Western Thunderer
Following on from my Layout thread Tywyn Wharf, ive put this seperate thread together so to keep thing a little seperate.
So the plan was to build the Peco Tal-y-llyn body on the Branchlines chassis to represent Tal-y-llyn in her 1900-1923 condition. I got the peco kit off Ebay. All parts present and correct to the list. tick. Finally got my hands on a chassis kit. Tick. Started to assemble the kit checking against the photos and drawings, not good not correct. Tal-y-llyn doesn't have a foot plate but the kit does. I should say that in the 1960-70 it did have one for a time but this was a later addition and has been removed. Big problem. So the tank is correct, as is the smoke box, firebox and the buffer beams. The cab is correct for the 1920's. So the kit has a 1920/30s boiler/smoke-box/fire-box, a 1920's cab and a 1960's foot plate so you can't actually build any one loco form the kit.
So To the drawing board.
So the plan was to build the Peco Tal-y-llyn body on the Branchlines chassis to represent Tal-y-llyn in her 1900-1923 condition. I got the peco kit off Ebay. All parts present and correct to the list. tick. Finally got my hands on a chassis kit. Tick. Started to assemble the kit checking against the photos and drawings, not good not correct. Tal-y-llyn doesn't have a foot plate but the kit does. I should say that in the 1960-70 it did have one for a time but this was a later addition and has been removed. Big problem. So the tank is correct, as is the smoke box, firebox and the buffer beams. The cab is correct for the 1920's. So the kit has a 1920/30s boiler/smoke-box/fire-box, a 1920's cab and a 1960's foot plate so you can't actually build any one loco form the kit.
So To the drawing board.