What we have here is an LNER P2, grafted rather cleverly I thought onto an old Triang Hornby A3 chassis which has had an additional coupled wheel slotted into it. One wheelset is flangeless to enable the thing to get round a train set curve. The tender is your bog standard Hornby offering.
The body is grafted out of a bit of (from what I could see) drain pipe, with lots of plasticard, UHU, Bostick and not a little hope to form a rough approximation of what I always thought was Gresley's best looking design.
Why do I show you this model? Well as I'm starting a blog I thought it best to show a model where someone who despite having apparently little skill in the scratchbuilding department has strived to build a model of a loco they couldn't otherwise have. It has many deep seated problems, not least the fact it wouldn't run properly, but they had a go, and thats comendable. I think for that reason its worth tinkering with to get it to run.
My best mate was extremely rude about the model, I felt sorry for it, but not so sorry as to offer it a home.....
The best sort of modeller is one who has a go instead of moaning the model they want isn't available. Everyone has to start somewhere and every project improves the skills a bit.
ReplyDeleteindeed Phil, I think that for someone who had just started this was a good stab at a difficult engine!
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