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I'm just starting on a new loco - a 5 in gauge Jubilee - ‘Galatea’


It's a good looking  4-6-0 tender loco, with the added interest of three cylinders.

Galatea is a preserved loco, so there's opportunity to add authentic detail. Also, the drawings are highly detailed, which will add to the interest. As a bonus, the drawings are all in Decimal - no more converting fractions !


A friend pointed me in the direction of Station Road Steam. They very kindly keep their old ads available. This is a very useful resource, and much appreciated . They have a group of pics showing an incomplete Galatea (long since sold).  Thank you, Station Road Steam.


There's a lot of physical work in cutting the frames: I've chosen to buy laser-cut frames this time.  There are also a lot of castings available. Whilst castings have advantages, they also bring their problems - identifying/ establishing reference surfaces, and work-holding to name but two.  Given the choice, I prefer to work from stock materials, rather than castings, for those reasons. Having said that, some of these casitings have detail which would not be easy to reproduce from stock material.





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