In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth...
At least it looks like it could be from that far back. It's certainly ancient and it's difficult to believe that modellers had to put up with this sort of thing in the dim and distant.
This Great Eastern Neilson saddletank was given to me earlier this week. There is also a complete unbuilt kit which, if anything, is even worse. The frames on the unbuilt kit are a single-piece whitemetal casting! The half-built model and the kit are by some outfit called Nu Cast.
The model is actually very well put together by whoever got it this far but overall is amazingly crude, with slab sides where the bottom half of the boiler ought to be and brake hangers and blocks that are not even in line with the wheel flanges, let alone the treads. And the most weird thing is that the wheel rims appear to be made of some kind of aluminium alloy.
But the best bit I have saved for last.
What about that for a motor? It looks like something Edison himself made. I have tried to make it run but it takes so much current that after half a revolution it caused my controller to trip. I don't think it's worth the time and effort to finish the thing, to be honest. I wonder if I should take it to the Antiques Roadshow?
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