Midlands Model engineers show 2017

[David Powell]

I have one engine that has, so far,taken me 37 years. In the meantime I have designed and built a 2" scale steam wagon,and a 4 3/4" gauge railway loco, rebuilt and/ or completed about half a dozen other others for myself and done a lot of repairs for friends. This week, for virtually the first time ever, I turned down a request to build a boiler for a fellow. I just want to have fun completing and playing with MY projects. Hopefully I will have my 2" Greenly/ Minnie engine finished before I have owned the cylinder casting ( which was a gift from a friend). What a lot of stories that engine encompasses, ( eg the steel boiler welded by a friend, now long gone, who learned his skills in jail after discovering bank robbery was not his career). Regards David Powell