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I get a bit confused - many people say they can't afford the current crop of locomotives, yet there is very little interest in a simpler, more affordable loco. Is it a case of it has to be a scale loco or not at all? Personally I just like running live steam engines and am less concerned whether it...

I would love to have an archangel for old times sake, and as said they are so much more mechanically interesting, but the prices are way out of reach of the common man (not that this isn't true of roundhouse etc)

I had a strange dream the other night in which their new model was this fairlie as a narrow gauge loco

Happy mass turkey eating day to everybody here!

Going by the last couple of releases I think we can safely say its not going to be a freelance loco, they seem to have gone as far as they can go with those, except maybe for a modernised Dylan

So 18 days until roundhouse announce their new loco, whats everybody hoping for?

I always loved watching model town as a child, there was something about the laid back modelling atmosphere, not to mention our own Peter Butler

I'm in Southern Ireland

Exquisite, at a scale of 1 1/16" to the foot, does that make it 7 1/4" gauge? I adore broad gauge and this loco perfectly exemplifies why

Quite a sweet little loco really theres some footage of one running on the Compton Down Railway on youtube

If this isn't inspirational I don't know what is, little wonder pulling 129 wagons, a total weight of about 210 tons

I've been known to use solidworks in the past, it's quite a good program though I've not used much else to compare it to

Hi Steve and welcome to the forum
Have you noticed on the kit there are four rivets on the bottom and six on the top (of each side panel) but this is the other way around on the prototype photo, must be a variation
Pugsy

Hear hear!

Live steam for me all the way, floreat vapor!

I wonder how much a set of driving wheels and cylinders would come to if one were so inclined as to build a small England as running in the 1860s (as a side tank)

This was brought to my attention earlier today and I thought I would share it here, locoworks are taking pre orders for a live steam George England :mrgreen: http://www.locoworks.co.uk/locomotives/hand-built-16mm-scale/prince-r-t-r-32mm-narrow-gauge-locomotive :thumbright: I'm going to wait and see ...

118 mph winds recorded earlier today, I don't fancy going out

Get thee ready a storm be brewin'
I'm just north of Limerick, slates are flying off the roof, trees and branches are everywhere, still all's well indoors

Not a day for steaming