time for another loco - Rowland Emmett 0-2-0 Hero

[Maple]

Pretty please.

[bessytractor]

I have been busy today. The smokebox has been built complete with furniture. The smokebox is made out of laminated laser cuttings to get the distinct shape, these were then soldered together with high temp soft solder. The chimney was soldered in from within the smokebox and the door was soldered on too. This is an old Millie casting, new ones are whitemetal, this one was brass so I decided to solder it on. A Millie dart will be ordered from Roundhouse to finish this off. The smokebox was soldered down onto the running plate to finish off, it leans ever so slightly forward but considering what it is I'm building I can live with that! A Roy Wood whistle has been added as it is suitably Emmett shaped!

[Peter Butler]

Unmistakably Emett. Progressing nicely with each new step.

[bessytractor]

thanks, getting there now, I just need to tidy up the plumbing and replace the lubricator (made it too small, woops!) and it will be ready. Then its time to make the tender!

[John Davies]

I'm not a 16mm gauge modeller - working in OO, HO and nominally 5.5mm scale on 12mm gauge track. (You can put the garlic and crucifix away, please - I didn't arrive via Whitby) I came across your site while researching Emett's Festival of Britain engines, and wanted to say thanks to you, personally, for your help and inspiration.

So far I've built Nellie and Hero; as Don Boreham recommended a minimum of three engines for a show layout, I'm now planning 'Neptune', and found your article most helpful in seeing just what can be done with these whimsies.

There must be quite a few of us who're inspired by Emett's work these days. I know of at least two other people working in the OO9 field, plus all the O16.5 spin-offs from Smallbrook Studios and doubtless there are more of us out there.

My own models are built of brass - OK, so Hero is about 70% wood, for the engine! - on old Triang and Berlinerbahn TT mechanisms, with card and wood for wagons and coaches, again on Triang chassis. And there's an awful lot of his philosophy (scrapbox, rather than hedgerow and duckpond emptying) went into the layout on which they run at shows, church fairs and the like. Yesterday they went to an old people's home, as part of an entert(r)ainment
our local OO9 group organised, and proved very popular.

Model railroading is, and should always be fun, or enjoyable - above all else. Forget that, and we're lost.