Good morning,
I'm asking a question that I've been stumbling over for a while. I've got a few locos which will require cylinder blocks and valve gear, but the chassis are diesel. Has anyone had any success on finding a solution for these situations. Most of these would be Kato chassis but not exclusively.
I know Langley Fairlie's come with the parts to make the valve gear fit the donor chassis, so that's the kind of thing I had in mind.
Scratch building is an option but I'm not very skilled at that.
You can fit for rods and valve gear on the Kato four-wheel chassis as the plastic outside frames cannot be removed. These are required as they contain the axle bearings. This is why most of the kits for these chassis are tram locos.
RT Models sell some rods/valve gear and cylinders for the Graham Farish outside framed class 08 chassis and others that may be adapatable to other chassis:
https://www.rtmodels.co.uk/rt_models_015.htm