Kitsons real and imagined

[Alan Feldon]

Well after John/Ivan's creations back to mundane plastic
The last real one

this is another FCAB one



This is more correct than the previous one,as i described the build on NGRMonline and my mistakes were pointed out.
I'll leave Mick to count the wheels
and now for the whimsical ones.
Hattons at one time were knocking out bachman mallets at about

[tedp]

Ross: yes it is the same as in the 009 News.

Alan, it seems you went from the Centre Models / Meridian kit to plastic at some stage. How much is plastic and how much is Meridian kit? Looking at the side views you pressed in the rivets from behind.

[Alan Feldon]

Ted
The original 2 L&M,the CGR and the Roger Christian crib are from w/m kits
The Barsi is sheet lead and all the rest are plasticard
I draw out on the rear of the plasticard where the rivets are to go and then impress the "rivets" down the lines with a clock gear wheel-plays havoc with the fingers!
Alan

[Ross Chapman]

This is more correct than the previous one,as i described the build on NGRMonline and my mistakes were pointed out.
I'll leave Mick to count the wheels
and now for the whimsical ones.
Hattons at one time were knocking out bachman mallets at about

[Alan Feldon]

Ross
The rumour was that bachman wanted to get rid of them as they were bringing out a new version.They had previously been selling at a reduced price of

[Ross Chapman]

Bum, I always seem to miss the good stuff!

Being doing a bit of research and I found that the line I am going to say most of my locos are copies of (the Cyprus Railway) actually had some quite chunky 4-8-4T Kitsons so maybe I can excuse having a big Kitson -maybe a 4-6-4T?

Don't know why, but the more I see them, the more I think that Kitsons just look "right" on narrow gauge!

[Alan Feldon]

Youv'e probably guessed Ross but i think the same.

[JulienW]

Me three! ;D

[Russell Brown]

I would agree too 

[Ross Chapman]

LOL, at this rate Alan will have my trying to figure out how to get a kit and make Mini-Kitson's!

0-6-2T Kitson anyone?

[Alan Feldon]

Ross
I really like big engines because for me the more wheels they have and weight they run better.
I started off over 40 years ago with eggerbahn and as a result nearly gave up on 009.
My saviour was that i decided to build for my first scratch built attempt a double fairlie and used as a chassis the bachman GP40 which was starting to be imported.
It ran so well that I never looked back from those days and vowed that any chassis i used would have a minimum of 6 wheel pick up.Any tender locos I had also picked up from the tender.
Over the years the locos have got bigger and bigger and the smaller locs have been sold off.
I like the look of Kitsons and hence they are the biggest "class" of locos on my layout,and as you say you can alter the basic kit to suit a variety of other Kitsons(not perhaps accurately but at least a representation).i in any event do not consider any of my models "scale" but representations, as many are built from photos without any measurements known,and we also all heve the same problem of the electric motor being in the wrong place!