Hello from a newbie

Just wanted to say hello to the forum and post a picture of what i do.

lets hope i manage to post a picure





Cheers Kevin

Kevin,

Welcome to the forum, which you will find to be extremely addictive.

Great photos.

Have you got any history on this machine ?

Regards from Melbourne,Australia,

AAB

Welcome to the forum ....


nice machine

Excellent model. You're already far ahead of many here. Move to the head of the class.

Keven, Nice work!!! Is that by any chance the tractuinengine known as the "Mini"?

That looks cool.

HI
Thank you for the comments and yes indeed it is the Minnie as drawn by LC Masson.
The engine is based on an agricultural engine from around 1900 - 1914. In truth it shares a lot in common with the Foster engines and to some degree the Burrell's.
I am mid way into a build on a second Minnie this time in 2 inch to the foot (1-6th scale) the one in the pictures is 1 inch to the foot. I made a lot of changes to the basic drawings in an attempt to let the engine run well enough to do some lite work.
There are a good few pictures of the 2 inch as its being built at

http://s138.photobucket.com/albums/q268/kevingambrell/

along with a few more of the 1 inch.

have to say this is a great forum more information than I could wish for very glad I found you guys.

Cheers Kevin

Outstanding Kevin, and thank you for the in-progress photos, welcome aboard.

Bob