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one of the garrets would be nice.

Personally i would like to see one of the very early victorian loco's.
The brittish invented the steam engine and yet this period seems to be almost totally ignored by modellers.

I was up at York for the railfest a couple of years ago and the movement on the pennydarren was wonderfull. or how about a puffing billy or a steam elephant.....

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RApennyRA.jpg

Peter

I have got to get to 1000 posts before i leave from work!! i am soooo close!

 

[pedromorgan]

I have a kit built LMS garrett. there were actually 2 kits available. the kitmaster one and the K's model.
The moulds for the kitmaster were destroyed and the k's model went to Nu-cast.

Mine needs some attention. i did the valve gear i messed up the first time is sitting in a box. i have replacements but i never seem to get around to it.

it is actually still available. the kit cost me about £120 and did not include motors and gears ect...
unfortunatly i believe the moulds changed hands and the new chap is charging silly money. someone i know approached him and asked about the situation and he said he was thinking about stopping production because nobody was buying them! its catch 22. if he keeps his prices at their current crazy levels then he will never sell them. if he dosent sell them then he will stop production. its such a shame that K's has ended up like this. it has so much potential. i would love to see the continental kits back in production. they did a wonderfull range of models that were just that little bit different. i believe he now wants in the region of £200 for the garrett kit. its just not worth that. when i got my replacement valve gear parts i was charged £30 just for 2 small etches. i dont mind paying reasonable prices but that was just taking the p"$#.

DJH make a very nice kit of the LNER garrett.

Peter

 

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I think part of the problem with Garrets is that there were lots of different types. there isnt a single iconic type. its not like the bog boys that were famous for being the biggest.
I would love another garrett but i am not so fussed about an australian one. i would quite like one of the SAR class 59's.

On a side note with the nucast model becomming increasingly difficult to find i keep having thoughts about etching one. no particular part of the loco would be difficult but its just such a big job.

Peter

 

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the south african railways/lima situation is another case of them not using the international arm properly (i seem to have turned this into a bit of a theme recently. sorry about that but i am only venting frustration) again they are assuming that only south africans would want to buy SAR models. they have not factored in at all how many they could sell in other parts of the world. they could easily do a limited edition in the various UK sectors and sell it as a normal model in SA.

Anyway. a garrett would be wonderfull.

Peter

 

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he he. I saw a few of them in grays antiques a few weeks ago. i thought about them for suriosity's sake but money really is a bit tight right now.

Peter

 

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QUOTE (Makemineadouble)I wonder why the kit master moulds were destroyed, were they part of the ones involved in a fire some years back ?.

QUOTE (BRITHO)I thought they were one of the moulds broken up for scrap in the early 60's?

Sorry i missed those messages.

They were left outside under a tarpawling untill they had rusted then to finish them off the were smashed with a sledgehammer.

A great pity.

Peter