Garden Railway Forum

First Class kit bashing!

Modeltown sell a kit for a DeWinton type engine.

You can drive a Roundhouse loco on the reverser but it will be very jerky because the none working combination lever.

You could put a slot in coal load so it slides round gas valve so you can take it off.

St.Michael:71536 wrote: the massive (don´t remember the english name..) swing(?)wheel that works on the top together with the oscilator!

The word your looking for is flywheel.Dont wore it happens to the best of use.

Lovely engine.As long as it live steam I like.Dont matter were it from.

Your condense sounds like a plan.I would make the pipe small as possible and leave the end open[a wisp of steam from under engine looks atmosferice].For coal bunker you could make a open box to cover the gas tank with coal on top.

The 16mm society publish some standards but its up to people to yo use them.

No it not vacuum forming.It a frame with sheet material bent round it and glued to it.I have made bonnets for diesel locos models this way.Hope that a bit clearer.

One way is to make the ends/formers then form the shape with thin sheet around the ends.For the saddle tank you could yo use another former in the middle.

Have you thought of putting a drawing pin in sleeper and solding the rail to the drawing pin.

I woad good with Swift Sixteen bogies.They look to be made boom proof.

Are you going to make it in to a loco?

It runs like most Roundhouse loco[very well]and it was made by Roundhouse/GRS.It based on a Bagnall loco for Burma Mines Railway.

A very nice engine.
Are do any thing with the top of coal boxes?

Your control system look novel and very affective.I would like to have a go at simile control system.

Is it Kirkby Green Light Railway[10.25 gauge]?

Very nice.

I think there's an ALCO in France.

Are some thing to do with classes of German narrow gauge locos?