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Iron Pigs
OK this is the second attempt on showing what has inspired the exercise.
Tin Turtles used in the trenches in WW1 should be the first picture followed by a Motor rail Simplex obviously for a Naturist colony as it is suitably unclothed. Finally Victoria with a steam engine. You will see the similarity in proportions with the picture Trev posted and all of which can be fitted to the same basic chassis with only minor modifications. Being lazy to me a cast aluminium chassis that will save many hours of work seems a good idea.
Iron Pigs are not intended to be copies of anything original but a basic part we can adapt to our own ideas and depending on what is fancied can be gear, chain or side rod driven. Bodywork can be as whimsical as imagination dictates and not alltogether without precedent in the real world where custom finished machgines could be ordered at will or out in the backwoods locos cobbled together from whatever was around at the time. As long as the end product is proportioned for a scale of 1/12 or 7/8n2 we will be reasonably content.
But a Daddy Longlegs crossing my fish pond has interesting possibilites.
John (G)
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