Currently he’s building up this GWR 2-8-0 Prairie which is mostly etched brass with a very neat resin casting for the boiler.
He was explaining to me that it bears a similarity to the Mercian kit for our Welsh Pony in that the etches are scaled down from a 7mm kit and as a consequence the motor doesn’t fit!
It also has a very agricultural drive with the motor mounted vertically with a worm driving a big gear mounted on the axle - no reduction gearbox here!
Surfice to say he’s overcome this issue and the build is progressing nicely, but counting and pressing out all the rivers on those tanks was a thankless task apparently....
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