Neverwazzas....
Since my last update, finally getting a decent result for a Robinson matchboard carriage, I've been quite busy. The intention is to rebuild all four of my matchboard carriages in one go, and so far I've completed two and got a third roughly half-way finished.
Yesterday progress on these came to a halt when the postman delivered a copy of W.A. Tuplin's 'Great Central Steam'. A quick flick through brought me to the obligatory centre pages of illustrations, complete with line drawings of locos considered but never built.
Now the 'Super Sam Fay' and the 'Super Director' left me feeling quite ill. To my eye the fine lines of the original builds would have been comprehensively ruined if rebuilt with longer, larger, 200psi boilers and more substantial frames. What really got my attention and excited me was the proposed but never built Gorton mogul. 5'8'' drivers with a coupled wheelbase 7'6'' + 8'6'' paired up with the boiler from a Director.
Now then, who has ever made a model 5'8'' wheeled mogul.... ah, yes, Mainline made one. Does it match? No, not quite.... the 43xx wheelbase is 7'0'' + 7'9''....
So, 7mm out at 4mm scale. Still, as it was never built who is to say it would be wrong?
And of course, to build this would set a precedent to build the neverwazza early 1920s Robinson pacific....
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