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Early Archangel loco for sale
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:06 am
by ge_rik
I know some on here are really into their early live steamers, so wondered if what I stumbled across on eBay might be of interest.....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234333378219
Is this what they call a brick?
Rik
Re: Early Archangel loco for sale
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 1:25 pm
by Andrew
Not one for me, but very nice!
It's not a Brick, but Princess (Prince's sister), a Ffestiniog "England" in an early (pre-saddle tank) guise. She should have a tender, don't know if the Archangel model did.
Here's the orginal Brick -
https://www.16mm.org.uk/resources/drawings/locomotives/. Archangel's model was based on that, but I think it was stretched until it was considerably overscale for 16mm. I owned a secondhand one, briefly, as a teenager, but couldn't get the thing to steam - the aesthetics didn't do much for me either. I like Princess very much though...
Re: Early Archangel loco for sale
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 12:33 am
by GTB
The link below is an Archangel 'Brick', about as minimalist a working steam model as you will find in the garden scales.
http://www.sidestreet.info/locos/loco110.html
There's an Archangel 'Princess' on there as well. Live steam loco design has come a long way in the last 35 or so years........
http://www.sidestreet.info/locos/loco83.html
Graeme