Thanks Frank for the help.
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I am not a member of the 7mm group yet, the
thing is I do have a large collection of 00n3 stock and kits to build and I am
against selling them all off as it has taken me ages to put the collection
together for a layout I have planned.
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As for a 7mm layout if I should get around
to building such a layout, it will have to be duel gauge, i.e. 14mm narrow
gauge?and 33mm finescale standard gauge.
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It would be?set somewhere in
the?Somerset/Devon area, this is so I can run SR/GWR/SDJR stock and a
mixture of L&BR/FR/WW1 stock on the Narrow gauge.
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I like the idea of using Minffordd as a
basis for the NG and interchange sidings but then for the SG bit I have always
liked Halwill Junction as that had two SR lines, a GWR Branch plus an MOD
Supplies Depot near by (up to the First
WW).????
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Regards
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Colin
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 1:19
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Subject: RE: [O14] The Stronalacher
Saga
Colin,
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I
have a few more minutes.
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The
Springside Fowler is pretty crude, you'll need to do a lot to it to make
something decent. I think it takes a Polly or Smokey Joe chassis. Buy the
replacement S J etched version from Branchlines with Romford wheels but no
motor or gear box. Buy those from High Level, 108:1 and fit a flywheel.. You
can play about with the body knowing that it will run like a
dream.
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I'd
put the same gearbox in Prince. I've regeared Palmerston from the same kit for
a friend, another friend says steam engines cannot run so slow as the steam
condenses in the cylinders!
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The
Baldwin, if you can get one has a bit of a reputation as a lot of work to get
right. I have three part built with HL gearboxes again.
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I
have a kit for the Darjeeling, I know two who have built them and both said
the body worked fine but the chassis wanted work. If you are a member, you can
access an article several years ago by Keith Millard in Narrow Lines, magazine
of the 7mm narrow Gauge Association. There's another by me, The Peacock, the
Eagle and the Dragon where I mess about with the Branchlines Peacock kit on
their Eagle chassis, that has the HL drive,
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Frank
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From:
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Sent: Monday, 10
October, 2016 11:39
To: O14@...
Subject: [O14]
The Stronalacher Saga
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I am
not sure how many of you guys will have read the articles about this 009
layout from many years ago, but I appear to have more time on my hands than is
good for me right now, so I though I would ask on here if any of the following
locos have an O14 kit available.
I
know some won't, simply because they are based on commercial 009 locos, but
others might, so I though I would ask, the numbers by the way refer to
No 2
Venus - the loco is based on a Fowler 0-4-0 built for the Colonial Sugar
Refining Co Ltd in 1880.
No 3
Prince?- based?on the FR England engines in the latest format with a
saddle tank.
No 4
Exe?- based on the L & B loco in her later
form.?????????????????????????????????????
EDM will have a kit available at some time?
No 5
Prince Charlie?- a model of one of the G W R built locos for the V o R
??? Didn't some one used to make a white metal body of
this??
No 6
A Baldwin 4-6-0 built for the WW1 trench
railways.????????????????????????????????Didn't
Wrightlines used to make a white metal body of
this??
No
7?A model of one of the Darjeeling Himalayan B
Class??????????????????????????????
Didn't Wrightlines used to make a white metal body of this???
No 8
A model of a Hibberd Planet diesel, inspired by one from the
Ashover.
No 9
An 0-4-4-0 Beyer Garrat based on the one built for the Darjeeling Himalayan
No
10 Freelance diesel loco
Sorry If I have posted this
before, but I cant find the?answers at the
moment.
Also
dose anyone have a current Wrightlines catalogue if one exists?
