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If you're minded to build "Sweet Pea"s bigger brother, the 7 1/4 inch gauge "Sweet William", this is about as good a start as you get. Pretty much everything Blackgates do by way of laser cut time-saving kits, including frames, buffer beams, valve gear and reverser assembly, castings for cylinders, wheels, pump eccentrics, pistons, chimney cap and axleboxes and a rolled up smokebox tube.

Still at an early stage, the work that has been done is to a good standard and will save you some pretty tedious cutting and drilling of angle iron to make up frame stretchers, along with a finished, turned from the solid smokebox door (which looks as if somebody's got friends with CNC...), brake stand, a set of crankpins, valve spindles, piston rods and part-machined pistons.

A good car bootful of stuff, I would guess around 150 pounds of assorted metal and, given the length of frames, probably best collected.