7mm Chancellor or 149 Class build

Kev T

Western Thunderer
This is what I'm setting out to build. It's a rebuild of an England build of a Gooch design for the "narrow gauge" in the north of the GWR system. The rebuild was in Wolverhampton between 1878 and 1883 and I think this photo shows that rebuild as I've photos of later rebuilds with a straight cab front.
I don't know the copyright holder, but happy to acknowledge if anyone comes forwards.

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I bought a set of etches a few years ago at Guildex. They have 2 sketch drawings and a GA drawing copyright PH Read. Two of the etches are marked, one 2006 PHRead the other 021 designs. Anyone know PH Read?

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The etches seem decent quality with the chassis etch being quite thick.

I'm currently building a River class which is very similar, so I hope to be able to see how things go together from that build
I've got a full set of River castings for the Chancellor. Wheel diameter is 6'6" but the nearest I can find is the Slaters 6"9" which I guess will have to do.

So now to study the etches and work out how it goes together. This should be fun.

Kev
 
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