If you are game to do something a bit different then you could try a Fowler portable . Unlike nearly all portables they were built like a traction engine with the cylinder mounted on the barrel . If you chose an appropriate scale you could use the castings and fittings from a Fowler TE miniature design , and with luck you could find the neccessary arrangement drawings in the archive at MERL in Reading .
It might be worth a feasability study ?
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