[alastairq]

I'd personally go for the ccoach...or even a wagon or two first....just to get the 'feel' of the things.

In fact, the odd Slaters wagon [a simple open wagon to start with] may prove an easier way in, as it gets something ''up and running'' fairly quickly?

the loco is going to take longer [there was a series on this 'starter' kit recently, I think, in Model Rail magazine?]...to get something appreciable together.......too easy to 'lose heart' if it takes too long to have 'something to show?'

with a simple open wagon....nothing is going to be 'wasted'...[I have the mortal remains of of just such a beast from way back before pre-history.....just such a 'feeler'......sady, or otherwise, I did something different.]......

 

[alastairq]

I really ought to start putting two and two together properly...my mistake...ought to have read through your other thread......

AM I right in thinking, this C14 loco has inside cylinders?

and did I read the articles right that there were sets of con rods and outside cyclinders suitable for this engine?

does anybody remember a firm called Cherry Models?

way back in around 1973 or 4, I came across a plastic O gauge loco kit in a central London model shop [Cherry's??]...it utilised the Lima 4 wheel motor bogie...of which I had two [and still have one, with its blue diesel bodyshell...which, on a suggestion in a mag long ago, I have cut down to produce a Lok].....as I recall, the actual 'kit' consisted more of a set of stick-on plans to be stuck on plasticard. I completed the loco, but it seems to have been lost in the mists of time....and moves from London to Scarborough, to everywhere.

things seem to have moved on a bit from those days?