How's that for a pun? I've put a photo of my double Fairlie in the photo
section. This is taken before I turned down the flanges. I don't really
understand this adding photos business, so if you ask it for full screen
you will find it goes massive, you will need a wall size screen. Tell me
what I am doing wrong and I will sort it.
The loco was a Wrightlines kit, originally 16.5. When I decided to go
14mm, I dismantled it, turned down the frame spacers and regauged it.
Partly then, but also in its 16.5 days it has been somewhat modified
underneath. It no longer has the three point bogie pivots, the original
motor, or gear box. It now has a Branchlines 80:1 boxes, and mashima
motors on their sides. The pivot is now a bolt into a bit of earth pin
off a plug soldered under the dome. This carries a bar which spans the
motor, and is then bolted to part of the Wrightlines mounting plate
through the standoffs used for printed circuit boards. It has DCC chips
for each motor though the pickups are linked.
I've modelled it as far as I know as Taliesin running about 1930, though
it was probably in Colonel Stephen's Kentish Green. I've used Rover
Targa Red, and lining is Fox transfers. It took about 20 hours in total
to line out.
I have two others to do, one should make Merddin Emrys reasonably
easily, but converting the other to James Spooner (just before
withdrawal) is going to be a bigger problem
