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Post by pauly » Sat Mar 15, 2014 6:50 pm

cncmodeller:96596 wrote:Digging around I managed to find these photos of my Archangel C and M Princess dating from July 1986. The images show it in original condition and while in use later with added detail such as cab beading, riveted and glazed cab windows, scale sand pots [ which is the only thing I have left!] and green livery with lining.
I returned it back to original condition before I sold it and notice the odd shaped original sand domes unlike any other Princess I have seen, I wonder where it is now?

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thats fantastic, I never knew anyone ever did a commercial live steam model of a Skylark!
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Post by kandnwlr » Sat Mar 15, 2014 7:06 pm

paullad1984:97815 wrote:Ooooooo, nice!
Wonder what a SAR Lawley would look like from his workshop!
My guess is that it would look pretty good, and there´s a family resemblance there, even if Lawley is a 4-4-0.

Here´s the Cyprus engine in spring cleaning mode :lol:

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Post by laalratty » Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:41 pm

That would be the loco from the latest Lightlines advert in 16mm Today then! Very nice indeed.
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Post by paullad1984 » Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:42 pm

Think if i was to comission one it would have to be meths fired.....

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Post by Paul H » Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:00 am

I also have to come clean. Stewart is doing meths fired commissions as exemplified by my new build C&M Princess delivered last month after lining.


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Post by paullad1984 » Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:11 am

Dos he still supply those lovely turned Nylon buffers or did you have to source originals yourself?

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Post by Paul H » Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:34 pm

I ordered the loco with buffers and center hooks which he supplied. On this model, as other owners have noted, buffers are a necessity if one wants to lift the loco when in steam or within half an hour of the end of a run.

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Post by paullad1984 » Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:35 pm

yes i always found that with my Murphy when i had it, cracking loco BUT it got very hot and if it found a nice downhill gradient you could bet your life it would derail at the first corner!

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Post by pauly » Sat Mar 22, 2014 10:27 pm

kandnwlr:97827 wrote:
paullad1984:97815 wrote:Ooooooo, nice!
Wonder what a SAR Lawley would look like from his workshop!
My guess is that it would look pretty good, and there´s a family resemblance there, even if Lawley is a 4-4-0.

Here´s the Cyprus engine in spring cleaning mode  :lol:

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interesting smokebox door
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Post by Peter Butler » Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:54 pm

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Obviously assembled in the wine cellar!

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Post by ace » Sun Mar 23, 2014 1:44 am

That is great that commissions are still being taken. I'd really like one of their locos, does anyone have an email address for them?
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Post by kandnwlr » Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:08 am

Peter Butler:98146 wrote:
pauly:98140 wrote:


interesting smokebox door
Obviously assembled in the wine cellar!
Glad someone noticed it - really time for spring cleaning! And the grab handles on right hand side are also not visible. But rest assured, no locomotives were hurt in making the pics.

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Post by MDLR » Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:53 pm

I can't see ANY sign of springs being cleaned!
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Post by kandnwlr » Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:46 am

MDLR:98177 wrote:I can't see ANY sign of springs being cleaned!
:D :o :shock: You should have seen what happened to the tender in transport. I would have been happy to have a spring or two.

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Post by IrishPeter » Mon Mar 24, 2014 4:56 pm

Is a broom in the chimney the local version of the "Do not move" sign? :idea:

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Post by kandnwlr » Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:43 pm

IrishPeter:98206 wrote:Is a broom in the chimney the local version of the "Do not move" sign? :idea:

Peter in AZ
There was a Rowland Emmet cartoon somewhere which showed a driver pushing a chimney brush up a funnel and school books, satchels etc. coming out the top. I was going to "open the front door" of the boiler, but sadly Stewart Browne has constructed it so that the whole of the front comes away for cleaning ... so my cunning plan to stick one of my St. Trinians girls in there head first was foiled. But you get the idea ....

I think that your explanation has a basis in logic that sadly I can´t attain  ;)  :roll:

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Post by Peter Butler » Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:30 pm

kandnwlr:98217 wrote:
There was a Rowland Emmet cartoon somewhere which showed a driver pushing a chimney brush up a funnel and school books, satchels etc. coming out the top. :
If you have a Rowland Emett question, then I'm your man!
I have all of his books way back to 1943 and can show the cartoon you mention from 'Emett's Ministry of Transport', published 1981.
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Another version on the same theme is taken from 'The Early Morning Milk Train'. Two identical volumes of the same cartoons were printed in Britain by John Murray in 1976, and in USA by The Stephen Greene Press in 1977....
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Post by kandnwlr » Sat Mar 29, 2014 12:41 pm

Very kind. Your collection is far more comprehensive than mine!

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New Build Archangel

Post by cncmodeller » Sat May 09, 2015 10:57 am

This discussion prompted me to order a new Skylark as I always regretted selling my 1985 one, Stewarts photo shows it below, as you can see there are many improvements in detail and this one is a meths burner which I personally prefer and is in keeping with the origins of this branch of Narrow Gauge modelling.

ImageArchangel Steam Locomotive Skylark C and M Princess 2015 Build 001 by uniquenarrowgauge, on Flickr

ImageArchangel Steam Locomotive Skylark C and M Princess 2015 Build 002 by uniquenarrowgauge, on Flickr
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Re: New Build Archangel

Post by kandnwlr » Sat May 09, 2015 11:17 am

cncmodeller:110698 wrote:This discussion prompted me to order a new Skylark as I always regretted selling my 1985 one, Stewarts photo shows it below, as you can see there are many improvements in detail and this one is a meths burner which I personally prefer and is in keeping with the origins of this branch of Narrow Gauge modelling.
Now Skylark is a Thing of Beauty.

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