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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 6:50 pm
by pauly
cncmodeller:96596 wrote:Digging around I managed to find these photos of my Archangel C and M Princess dating from July 1986. The images show it in original condition and while in use later with added detail such as cab beading, riveted and glazed cab windows, scale sand pots [ which is the only thing I have left!] and green livery with lining.
I returned it back to original condition before I sold it and notice the odd shaped original sand domes unlike any other Princess I have seen, I wonder where it is now?
John
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thats fantastic, I never knew anyone ever did a commercial live steam model of a Skylark!
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 7:06 pm
by kandnwlr
paullad1984:97815 wrote:Ooooooo, nice!
Wonder what a SAR Lawley would look like from his workshop!
My guess is that it would look pretty good, and there´s a family resemblance there, even if Lawley is a 4-4-0.
Here´s the Cyprus engine in spring cleaning mode
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:41 pm
by laalratty
That would be the loco from the latest Lightlines advert in 16mm Today then! Very nice indeed.
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:42 pm
by paullad1984
Think if i was to comission one it would have to be meths fired.....
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:00 am
by Paul H
I also have to come clean. Stewart is doing meths fired commissions as exemplified by my new build C&M Princess delivered last month after lining.
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:11 am
by paullad1984
Dos he still supply those lovely turned Nylon buffers or did you have to source originals yourself?
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:34 pm
by Paul H
I ordered the loco with buffers and center hooks which he supplied. On this model, as other owners have noted, buffers are a necessity if one wants to lift the loco when in steam or within half an hour of the end of a run.
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:35 pm
by paullad1984
yes i always found that with my Murphy when i had it, cracking loco BUT it got very hot and if it found a nice downhill gradient you could bet your life it would derail at the first corner!
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 10:27 pm
by pauly
kandnwlr:97827 wrote:paullad1984:97815 wrote:Ooooooo, nice!
Wonder what a SAR Lawley would look like from his workshop!
My guess is that it would look pretty good, and there´s a family resemblance there, even if Lawley is a 4-4-0.
Here´s the Cyprus engine in spring cleaning mode :lol:
interesting smokebox door
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:54 pm
by Peter Butler
pauly:98140 wrote:
interesting smokebox door[/quote]
Obviously assembled in the wine cellar!
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 1:44 am
by ace
That is great that commissions are still being taken. I'd really like one of their locos, does anyone have an email address for them?
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:08 am
by kandnwlr
Peter Butler:98146 wrote:pauly:98140 wrote:
interesting smokebox door
Obviously assembled in the wine cellar!
Glad someone noticed it - really time for spring cleaning! And the grab handles on right hand side are also not visible. But rest assured, no locomotives were hurt in making the pics.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:53 pm
by MDLR
I can't see ANY sign of springs being cleaned!
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:46 am
by kandnwlr
MDLR:98177 wrote:I can't see ANY sign of springs being cleaned!
You should have seen what happened to the tender in transport. I would have been happy to have a spring or two.
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 4:56 pm
by IrishPeter
Is a broom in the chimney the local version of the "Do not move" sign?
Peter in AZ
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:43 pm
by kandnwlr
IrishPeter:98206 wrote:Is a broom in the chimney the local version of the "Do not move" sign?
Peter in AZ
There was a Rowland Emmet cartoon somewhere which showed a driver pushing a chimney brush up a funnel and school books, satchels etc. coming out the top. I was going to "open the front door" of the boiler, but sadly Stewart Browne has constructed it so that the whole of the front comes away for cleaning ... so my cunning plan to stick one of my St. Trinians girls in there head first was foiled. But you get the idea ....
I think that your explanation has a basis in logic that sadly I can´t attain ;) :roll:
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:30 pm
by Peter Butler
kandnwlr:98217 wrote:
There was a Rowland Emmet cartoon somewhere which showed a driver pushing a chimney brush up a funnel and school books, satchels etc. coming out the top. :
If you have a Rowland Emett question, then I'm your man!
I have all of his books way back to 1943 and can show the cartoon you mention from 'Emett's Ministry of Transport', published 1981.
Another version on the same theme is taken from 'The Early Morning Milk Train'. Two identical volumes of the same cartoons were printed in Britain by John Murray in 1976, and in USA by The Stephen Greene Press in 1977....
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 12:41 pm
by kandnwlr
Very kind. Your collection is far more comprehensive than mine!
New Build Archangel
Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 10:57 am
by cncmodeller
This discussion prompted me to order a new Skylark as I always regretted selling my 1985 one, Stewarts photo shows it below, as you can see there are many improvements in detail and this one is a meths burner which I personally prefer and is in keeping with the origins of this branch of Narrow Gauge modelling.
Archangel Steam Locomotive Skylark C and M Princess 2015 Build 001 by
uniquenarrowgauge, on Flickr
Archangel Steam Locomotive Skylark C and M Princess 2015 Build 002 by
uniquenarrowgauge, on Flickr
Re: New Build Archangel
Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 11:17 am
by kandnwlr
cncmodeller:110698 wrote:This discussion prompted me to order a new Skylark as I always regretted selling my 1985 one, Stewarts photo shows it below, as you can see there are many improvements in detail and this one is a meths burner which I personally prefer and is in keeping with the origins of this branch of Narrow Gauge modelling.
Now Skylark is a Thing of Beauty.
