A well-advanced 5 inch gauge GWR 4-6-0 to Martin Evans’ “Torquay Manor”
design. Work to date comprises a complete tender and locomotive chassis, cab,
smokebox assembly and some boiler parts.
The chassis is largely good, although stiff to turn – it feels tight rather
than binding up, but really wants stripping to find out what needs easing.
The boiler comprises a rolled barrel with coppersmith’s joint, firebox outer wrapper and inner firebox with tubes silver-soldered in. Soldering to the tubes looks good, the boiler seam is not nice, with what looks like insufficient general heat and too much local heat producing a mixture of boiled solder on the outside and unmelted strips on the inside. It could certainly be redone to a satisfactory standard, alternatively you made decide that a professionally-made boiler is an investment easily recouped in the value of the finished engine.
Complete with a complete set of bound construction articles from "Model Engineer".
Length
Locomotive 39 inches
Tender 26 inches
gauge | 5 inch |