Smallbrook Gn15 Columbine

That is nice ! Another direction to swerve off into :-)

Have some concern that its on the smokey joe chassis as the motor is (unless its changed) all or nothing in terms of speed. Would be tempted to see what options are available to change it.

Cheers, Simon

They're selling the Chinese-made chassis for it now, which the Gn15 lot seem to reckon is considerably better for controllability than the Margate version. Given that the chassis is only fifteen squid, I reckon I'll try it, see how easy it is to DCC it (decoder might have to pretend to be a bag of coal or something...) and if the chassis doesn't deliver then look at other options. I'm already thinking of Ella- and Muriel- alike stretches of it... Get one first and have a look, I guess :-)

What an attractive loco - though I was expecting to see something a century or so older and with much bigger driving wheels :)

Nick

Yes, why is it people wave stuff like this in front of the impressionable and easily diverted!

They just want to share the temptation.

I went to Smallbrook's wbesite, and am thinking there must be a need for am Emmett locomotive on my On30 project.... I could make buildings replaceable, the Gn15 buildings would have the same footprint, and be just a tad or two taller to look right....

Too many projects, too little time.

;-)

Wolf K.

See, that's what I mean! I hadn't thought of that ...

Too much dithering on my part .. :()

Well, it's arrived (impressive, as I only phoned the order in yesterday afternoon...) Looks very nice, some flash on the bits of bodywork, but nothing that would scare anyone who's made an Airfix kit. I'll report some more when I've had the chance to look at it in more detail :-)

He's now doing a separate "Heywood" range in Gn15 as well - not on the website yet. "Columbine" was the first, but there's a Heywood "Katie" and a Bassett-Lowke back-to-back open coach coming (or ready, now) as well.