gorby
Sounds a very interesting and unusual project.

Villiers de Vos
Very unusual indeed. I am looking forward to following this project

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic idea! I will follow with utmost interest, too!

Andy WW1
You know it's kit-bashing when job number 1 is to saw off all the mudguards 🙂 road version is taking shape, more bashing to make it right hand drive... adding a few bits and pieces spark plugs, cables with styrene and brass. The last pic today is the one for motorising for rail use, so the engine is sawn in half too as that's where the electric motor will be.

Dmitry Melnikov
This is an interesting idea!

Anthony Hazelaar
Very interesting, following!

Ben M
watching this, can't miss it!

Ben M
What gauge track will you use, 45mm?

Andy WW1
Thanks all, I will have more photos very soon.
@Ben M : it's 32mm gauge which is fairly close to scale as it was a 2 foot narrow gauge railway

Dietmar Bogatzki
Interesting Project, following

Andy WW1
New pics added - my photo-etch arrived so I'm getting started on the rail chassis, so lots of soldering before I get back to the plastic bits. It's hard to work out what order to put stuff together 🙂

Jv
Looking forward to see some more on this build very interesting
I just got 7 of the Gabriel kits myself and can relate to the flash lots of it
But very interesting kits 1975 and 76 very old

Andy WW1
Finished at last, it's been on the go over a year 😮 I kind of forgot to keep taking in-progress pics so there is a bit of a jump from raw brass pics to finished paint 🙂 now I seek a suitable driver figure, but 1:20 driver figures in WW1 Brit uniforms seem kinda rare, I wonder why...

Ben M
You might be able to 3d print a figure to the correct scale.

Michael Kohl
Great subject and impressively clean brass work. I pull my hat for your ability to turn these shapeless bolbs of white metal into an outstanding model.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

wilky
Where do you get the photo etch set?

Dmitry Melnikov
It looks great!

Erik Leijdens
What a cool looking machine and a terrific result, you mastered that photoetch very well.

Neuling
I agree with Eric!

Andy WW1
Thanks for the comments, its been one of those builds that sometimes you have to just put aside and do something else for a while 🙂
@wilky I design etch kits as part of making a living, so I did CAD of the chassis then drew out the etch myself

wilky
Oh, no wonder I can't find it

Rui S
Beautys 👍

wilky
So, if your intention is to motorise the one on rails.
Does that mean you're going to make bomb wagons?

Andy WW1
I will do some artillery shell wagons for it, though they will be smaller ones than the photo in the album. That photo has been considered by minds greater than mine as having been staged for the camera, as that train would weigh far more than a Crewe Tractor could realistically get moving 🙂 there is a laser cut ply kit available of a tiny WW1 tramways wagon, so I will have maybe 3 of those on it.

Dietmar Bogatzki
Perfect build, Andy im thinking about building it in 1/35 👍 👍

Andy WW1
I would like to see that Dietmar! hopefully in 1/35 you would find more kit parts to use. I saw a resin of it but the design did not look correct to the historical photographs. If you need a drawing of it, there is a set of original plans in this book :
'Railways: A History in Drawings' by Christopher Valkoinen