Hi Gary

You may struggle to get drawings. But l am rebuilding a 3.5" gauge Maisie and as part of that project have digitised LBSC's drawing into a 2D model. If you have suitable software you are welcome to a copy to scale up.

Also l can't see anything special or peculiar about the castings. You would just need to hunt around the 5" gauge suppliers for suitable substitutes. Good sources could be Flying Scotsman or Green Arrow. Identyfying the cylinders probably the trickiest. But ouside cylinder/inside steam chests of the right bore and stroke should be findable. The steam cheats coukd be cut from stock material anyway, they are pretty simple.

Bruno.

Edited By Bruno Taylor on 05/03/2018 17:15:07

Edited By Bruno Taylor on 05/03/2018 17:37:34

Hi Gary,

If you want a 5" Maisie then you are looking for a GNR atlantic. Blackgates have all of Clarksons of York drawings and most of the castings, and it will be a much more prototypical model than a scaled up LBSC Maisie.

You'll get told that Clarksons drawings are no good, but many excellent models have been built from them, you just some times have to join the dots.

Eddie

Hi Gary,

The Blackgates Clarkson drawings and casting are the route to go by. The NRM have lots of drawings available, and there is a complete set of drawings for the LBSCR H2 Atlantic which devolved from the original Ivatt drawings, and which is being recreated in fullsize on the Bluebell Railway.

I have a GA from Doncaster of the Ivatt Atlantics as per Maisee, but LBSC took some liberties with his 3.5"g design.

I have not seen the Clarkson drawings but would imagine they are very accurate but not easy to interpret unless you have a lot of background knowledge.

W A (Bill) Carter built his 5"g Gold Medal winning example that won the top awards in 1967 and 1968 if you refer back to ME of this period. It was also a working miniature that proved itself on the track on the SMEE exhibition track for many years and at Beech Hurst.

I would also particularly recommend you acquire the RCTS LNER volume relevant to the large boilered GNR Atlantics and this will give you some appreciation as to the Richardson balanced slide valve version as to the later piston valve version.

Cheers,

Julian

I would be very interested in seeing if anyone ever build the Maisie as a pacific, Curly did make mention of that in ME.

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Regards,

Phil