Completed models - just out of interest

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I have a friend who is the same Bill, he enjoys making but loses interest once the model is finished and test run.

I'm not quite the same, I have made 3 road vehicles and enjoyed running them at shows but then they needed to be sold to finance the next one.

The 1 1/2 inch Burrell Boydell T.E. that I'm currently working on will be kept as will the 1 1/2 inch Fowell Box engine that is scheduled as the follow up.

One problem with keeping several large models is that you run out of space to store them.

Brian

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Hi Bill,

I have kept some of the model steam engines I have made, other I have given to friends. Occasionally I run the models just for fun.

Thor

Run them often enough to prove they work, then in a box or glass case and on with the next one. Running therm wears them out, and going round in circles behind a little puffer gets wearisome after a while. I still need to do a mod to the last loco, as it has a tall chimney I just poked the blower in through the side like a hockey stick. It howls when pulling hard, but it works, so the muse hasn't struck yet. Clocks are a different thing of course, they just keep on running, but mine are very simple.

I hope that mine will become venerated family Holy Relics when I croak.

Like my Uncle Geoff's sandcast bronze Boulton Paul Defiant ashtray, if only I could remember where it is, or whether it's me who last had it ...

I echo these thoughts.

I agree with Duncan, which is why maybe we have a disagreement on the Tich locomotive - for me, getting it to go around in circles, pulling me and possibly another body, is a challenge. My larger 3-1/2" gauge 2-8-2 is much less fun, and weighs in at close to 10x what Tich does. And, with Tich, it gets plugged up after 10 minutes of running, so time to take a break and socialize.

I've finished my 3-1/2" gauge Shay locomotive, currently sitting in a glass case in our living room, and I doubt it'll get much use, if any. Nice to look at, though.

Like Thor - I just gave away a ST steam pump to a friend to get him kickstarted in stationary models, after he sold his large 7-1/4" one. He'll use it, I certainly won't.

I don't think I was always this way, so I accept that there are many ways to enjoy this hobby, so however one gets satisfaction from model engineering is fine by me.

Edited By John Alexander Stewart on 24/03/2019 14:32:33

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I quite like refining things after I've built them, an improvement here, a tweak there. Nothing is ever truly finished.