{"product_id":"7-14-inch-gauge-gwr-king-for-completion-stock-code-6433","title":"7 1\/4 inch gauge GWR King for completion","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#FF0000\"\u003eWe sold this one back in 2010 - it's  recently come back due to a change in the owner's circumstances. Much the same  as it was four years ago, although it has sinced acquired one of Polly  Engineering's detailed brass tender body kits. Words and pictures below are from  2010, it looks the same today - it remains one of the finest Kings I've seen in  any scale, there is the potential here to make an absolutely superb engine.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eA 7 1\/4 inch gauge Great Western \"King\", built to  Trevor Shortland's painstakingly detailed design, derived from works drawings.  The work of a professional model engineer, this was one of a pair of engines in  progress when he died nearly twenty years ago. I first saw it in the summer of  2002 and have tried to buy it ever since. I think the engineering is immaculate  throughout - there are over fifty pictures below showing the quantity and  quality of work to date.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe builder logged over 5000 hours on the project to get this  far - the closer you look the more you see: the petticoat assembly which is  silver soldered from four castings and includes a blower ring and vacuum ejector  exhaust, sparing a builder none of prototype's detail, connecting rods fluted  out back and front (even the inside pair), eccentric straps tenoned together.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe chassis is pretty much complete, the tender chassis  well-advanced, with much of the brasswork formed to finish the tank. Platework  for the locomotive is largely done bar cab. There is a large quantity of  part-machined and spare parts for the engine (some of which, I suspect, were  from its sibling, separated from it back in the early 90s). The beautifully made  boiler is by Trevor Tremblen of \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.swindoncopperboilers.co.uk\/ass\/scboilers\/Pages\/about.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSwindon  Boilers\u003c\/a\u003e, copper construction with TIG-welded barrel seam, remainder all  silver soldered - it had a twice working pressure hydraulic test last week and a  new certificate issued, it will require a steam test when complete.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe finished locomotive with tender is almost nine feet long, it  will weigh something approaching quarter of a ton. Reeves still stock the  castings for \"King George V\" - an unmachined set to build the engine,  along with a commercially-built copper boiler and brass tender kit would  currently cost in excess of £17000.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eComplete with a set of drawings and two sheets of Swindon  general arrangement drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54009623740757,"sku":"6433","price":22500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/6433-1.webp?v=1779898649","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/7-14-inch-gauge-gwr-king-for-completion-stock-code-6433","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}