Hi David, I have a 1 inch minnie as well!! I started building it years ago but made a bit of a mess of the boiler, which leaks like a sieve. I fully intend to sort it one day but just keep it as a display piece at the moment. It runs nicely on air but needs a good supply of it :-) The loco I am building is a 5 inch Boxhill - one of the Stroudley terriers. I intend to finish it in the style of Newington, which sat outside the Hayling Billy pub on Hayling Island for many years. That particular one now runs on the Isle of Wight railway as number 8. My one runs on air, I have a professionaly made boiler for it. I have done some platework but not much. I suspect it will wait for a few years before I get back to it.
All the best,
Dave.
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