Thanks Peter, it does look better outside (in the dark, not so easy to see the red paint ), I agree.Peter Butler:90759 wrote:Nice video Ace, I can understand your enthusiasm now. It does look better running outside in the garden.
Thank you so much for sharing your book and pictures, CrackingjobCrackingjob:90765 wrote:I think two pots on top would look better and hide the valve...try this from one of the books I inherited from my late Dad...(I know its an articulated loco but it gives you an idea)
Actually I like this style of loco...we don't get them in the UK
I think brass turned pots of the style in the pictures (typical US) would be quite becoming
You could loose the whistle and put the valve at the back (with a pot over it) and have the boiler filler up front with a BELL that will take the eye from the filler...just a thought
Well funny you should say that, I was toying with the idea of putting another Mamod dome over the safety valve to hide it after Chris Cairns comments about it being so ugly, and quite right he is too. The whistle is to stay I am afraid, it is part of the make up as the MSR model it is meant to be. I have got a bell coming from the states for the top of the existing dome cover, but it didn't arrive in time for the show. I was unsure of a brass dome, it made me think of a Mamod when I saw it perched on top of the boiler, but maybe?