4mm Shrewsbury’s big beast: early season wasps

[AJC]

Not ‘done’, because it is far too clean. But it is in one piece with clean wheels and does run. At 223g, it’s quite heavy, so I’m interested to see what it will haul.





Quite pleased with that.

Adam

 

[James]

Adam that's looking fabulous!

 

[ullypug]

Lovely model but by god its ugly

 

[AJC]

Lovely model but by god its ugly

And therein is its appeal! Well, in part. It’s no worse than, for example, a 4F, but much more colourful.

Adam

 

[Tim Lewis]

There's something about "ugly" locos that is strangely attractive. Not sure I'd classify a 4F as ugly, but I'm a big fan of WD 2-8-0s, ex-NER Q5/2s and ex-L&Y large-boilered 0-8-0s, none of which could be described as "cute".

 

[AJC]

There's something about "ugly" locos that is strangely attractive. Not sure I'd classify a 4F as ugly, but I'm a big fan of WD 2-8-0s, ex-NER Q5/2s and ex-L&Y large-boilered 0-8-0s, none of which could be described as "cute".

I remember @Stevers saying years ago that an attractive 4F is a Q (he has a point). Something pleasingly straightforward about those big eight coupled things: lots of wheels, chunky boiler, motion hidden betwixt the frames. Uncomplicated.

I just like Sentinels.

Adam

 

[Osgood]

Quite pleased with that.

Adam

And so you should be!

 

[Stevers]

an attractive 4F is a Q

Of course a modern looking (and more attractive) Q is a Q1!

Bet that never gets quoted except to dispute...!