Hello from the Isle of Wight.

Welcome, it seems you have already made friends. If I can make a small suggestion, what would be nice is a cheap very easy build loco for beginners to start on. There's loads of beautiful loco kits out there, but never having made one the complexity is a bit off putting
 
Thanks for your welcome. My 7mm narrow gauge kits work on the basis of a cheap available commercial chassis, which I make a body kit to go onto, the kits are simple to build and I am now seriously looking at doing the same with either G Percy, Piko or LGB loco chassis. The problem is that people buy my kits and I also have commitments in other scales so this slows the mastering process down but I am working on it. MR
 
Welcome to the forum, it would seem you are reasonably well known, however for I newcomer like myself, I have not come across you before, please could we have a little more information for the unenlightened, :)
 
Had my Taita Gorge Railway up as a screensaver at work. New boss walks past, we get talking, as you do, then he whips out his phone, and shows me a picture of one of Smallbrooks Emmet locos that he had assembled..... so, I had to then bring up my Haywards Estate Railway (in Gn15).

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Ex Bachmann On30 with cab kit from one of Mr Smallbrook's competitors. Got this before I'd heard of Smallbrook, by the way.
 
Gavin Sowry said:
Had my Taita Gorge Railway up as a screensaver at work. New boss walks past, we get talking, as you do, then he whips out his phone, and shows me a picture of one of Smallbrooks Emmet locos that he had assembled..... so, I had to then bring up my Haywards Estate Railway (in Gn15).

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Ex Bachmann On30 with cab kit from one of Mr Smallbrook's competitors. Got this before I'd heard of Smallbrook, by the way.
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Great stuff. MR
 
Mr Smallbrook said:
Thanks for your welcome. My 7mm narrow gauge kits work on the basis of a cheap available commercial chassis, which I make a body kit to go onto, the kits are simple to build and I am now seriously looking at doing the same with either G Percy, Piko or LGB loco chassis. The problem is that people buy my kits and I also have commitments in other scales so this slows the mastering process down but I am working on it. MR
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Welcome also from Berlin!
I think you are absolutely right: What is valid for your 7mm range, is also valid for G-Scale, just think about the wide range of LGB OTTO / RUSTY conversions.

Don’t limit yourself to British NG! I would like to encourage you to “look over the channel”

... and think about this nice 2-6-2 “Regenwalde” - a true alternative to the well known LGB-Model.


As chassis could serve an older type LGB 99 6001, see also

http://www.buntbahn.de/modellbau/printview.php?t=1148&start=0

Andreas
 
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Well, it's G scale....... Gn15 to be precise.

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My first crack at static grass. Check out a site called gNatterbox... Google it, the host site Gn15.info seems to be bust, but you can access the Forum by searching gNatterbox.
 
Mr Smallbrook said:
There isn't much else like the Percy chassis and the LGB Stanz is too small, the ideal would be for me to offer a chassis kit or complete Super Nellie kit but then do I do it battery with or without r/c or track pick up? Mind you I also have other plans for the Percy chassis/ footplate and there is no guarantee that Percy will always be around to be available, particularly if the Thomas people price themselves out of the market.

I've a lot on at the moment so don't hold your breath but i'll give it some thought. MR
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Welcome to the Forum
I’ve used your products for the Stirling single and wheel sets for other conversions tenders
On the subject of Percy there is a pic below of my conversion to a southern B4 0-4-0T
There is also a pic of a Southern C14 tank using an LGB chassis
Good luck with your endeavours
 

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Flying15 said:
Welcome to the Forum
I’ve used your products for the Stirling single and wheel sets for other conversions tenders
On the subject of Percy there is a pic below of my conversion to a southern B4 0-4-0T
There is also a pic of a Southern C14 tank using an LGB chassis
Good luck with your endeavours
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Ps The real C14 is of course the old Triang Nellie
 
As someone who grew up not far from Battersea Park (Victoria, in the late 50's & 60's) and who's family bought Punch magazine regularly I became a great admirer of the wonderfully creative work of Roland Emmett - for obvious reasons. I love the Gn15 models you produce of these subjects and I think I have seen them incorporated into several show layouts. Your homepage has been duly "bookmarked" :cool: Welcome to the forum. Max
 
Flying15 said:
Welcome to the Forum
I’ve used your products for the Stirling single and wheel sets for other conversions tenders
On the subject of Percy there is a pic below of my conversion to a southern B4 0-4-0T
There is also a pic of a Southern C14 tank using an LGB chassis
Good luck with your endeavours
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Thanks for the welcome, I am most impressed with both the B4 and the C14 and they have given me a lot to think about. I saw the B4's around Plymouth as a lad but never got to Southampton to see the C14's. With regards to the wheels, I withdrew them because they took quite a bit of work to produce but I think that I will have to reintroduce them at a slightly increased price as I now am making many more for '0' gauge and so have improved the production process and consequently reduced the costs somewhat. MR
 
Flying15 said:
Ps The real C14 is of course the old Triang Nellie
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Triang's Nellie was a C14 stretched a bit but enough to be able to fit a Hornby/Dapol Terrier into it with a bit of chopping around. It makes into a nice little chunky loco. Sorry if I have gone a bit 'off piste'. MR
 
maxi-model said:
As someone who grew up not far from Battersea Park (Victoria, in the late 50's & 60's) and who's family bought Punch magazine regularly I became a great admirer of the wonderfully creative work of Roland Emmett - for obvious reasons. I love the Gn15 models you produce of these subjects and I think I have seen them incorporated into several show layouts. Your homepage has been duly "bookmarked" :cool: Welcome to the forum. Max
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Thanks for your welcome. As a child I found a copy of 'Saturday Slow' on my parents book shelves, it was soon liberated to my bedroom and I have it to this day along with all of the other books of Rowland Emett's drawings. I nagged and nagged my Mother to take me to Battersea but to no avail, however she did take me to see Emettland in Harrods and I have to say that I was dreadfully disappointed in it, so much so that I walked out, an action that I later regretted but with hindsight I don't think that I was far off the mark, it wasn't that good. More kits are on their way including the Observation Car. MR
 
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