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Scale Simplex

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#1

With any luck , there may be a dreadful picture of one of my Simplex ex-WD sand quarry locos. Kit based .

16mm scale 2ft gauge on 32mm track .

Mike Brit

#2

Cool
Do you have any other pics of it?

#3

Nice Mike. Here’s mine.

(http://i.imgur.com/hZiCgrel.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/I8y0G0Sl.png)

Needs a new motor, the one in it is DOA, Ive run it so much. I use this one to keep me company when Im out in the garden. Just set it on the track and away it goes. Dont have to worry about it.

#4

Hello Bob ,

I see you like them with their clothes on ! You also like them dirty . A man after me own heart .

I like your model , it certainly is an accurate and attractive representation of the ones working at the Leighton Buzzard Museum which is less than 20 miles from here .

For the technically minded , Bob’s is a Straight Frame Simplex , mine , not surprisingly is Bent.

I like these little critters , they are good fun to build and operate , even down to actual scale derailments .

Mike Brit

#5

Sean McGillicuddy said:

Cool
Do you have any other pics

Sean , if you knew the agony I went through getting that single picture from Picasa to this site , you would not be too surprised to know that , yes I have pictures .

As to presenting them on the forum , I need to lay out on my desk the following-

Tranquillisers . Whisky . New fingernails . Bandage . Jar of water to contain teeth (so’s not to grind them away) . Joss sticks containing opium . Olde English Prayer Book . New English Swear Book .

And that’s just to switch the computer on .

I shall endeavour to post more , and thanks for asking , it gives encouragement .

Mike Brit