Good to have confirmationOld Man Aaron wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 12:22 pm...Aye, Airdmillan is up the front of our storage compound. Like most things at Woodford, it looks worse than it really is...
It's the last steam loco (I understand) build by Fowler in UK.
Yes, that's her allright.Old Man Aaron wrote:...Here's the only shot I have of the loco...
Every single photo is useful - thank you.
Such a shame I didn't have all this before I started my model.
Had to guess too many things, making it in essence freelance representation of Airdmillan
That is ironic indeedOld Man Aaron wrote:...Ironically, I took loads of photos of it for a mate of mine last year, whom decided to build a static model, and needed reference material. Sorry to tell you I no longer have them, as I don't need the photos myself, and am running out of hard drive space. There's too many photos for him to email me any useful number of them, and what with this plague about, I can't visit him to get copies...
but not to worry - you could ask him to upload them to (for example) to:
https://wetransfer.com/
and I would have them the next day
Alternatively I am going to have to wait...
I thought you guys in Australia have managed to eradicate Covid19 ?
All is useful - thank you, but I know there were quite a few "improvements" made when it was copied in Bundaberg.Old Man Aaron wrote:...I do however have a few shots of our flagship, Bundaberg Fowler No.5, taken when it's drivers were returned from re-machining back in September. Being a virtually-identical copy of Airdmillan, I hope these photos might be of some use to you...
For example, right now I am working on cranks and factory drawing shows the cranks thinner than balance weights, like so:
yet Bundaberg Fowler has them the same thickness throughout...
so is it Bundaberg "improvement"? or was it the same for Airdmillan ??