• Try to match the 6ft 2inch wheel of your model? The converted Packets (35s) or Westcountry etc that i would walk under for their underneaths we called it on 72A shed, That Castles got a 6ft 81/2 inch wheel? Stanier stuff 6ft 9inch? But back in 1870 long before the Beatles would sing ‘ I wanna hold your hand’ and the Rollin Stones could never get ‘no satisfaction’! An engine like the Stirling would have a 8ft 1inch wheel and do 85 MPH on only 140psi on their York to London runs? So you bend its matches much less of a degree? Its the tiddlers! The bogy 3 footers that create the biggest problem! A long ago group made a Matchstick men recording? Doh! I call my creation Steam on reflection! That mirror weighs a ton!

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      • He painted Salford’s smokey tops
        On cardboard boxes from the shops
        And parts of ancoats where I used to play
        I’m sure he once walked down our street
        ‘Cause he painted kids who had nowt on their feet
        The clothes we wore had all see better days
        Now they said his works of art were dull
        No room, all ’round, the walls are full
        But Lowry didn’t care much anyway
        They said he just paints cats and dogs
        And matchstalk men in boots and clogs
        And Lowry said, “That’s just the way they’ll stay”
        And he painted matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
        He painted kids on the corner of the street that were sparking clogs
        Now he takes his brush, and he waits outside them factory gates
        To paint his matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
        Now canvas and brushes were wearing thin
        When London started calling him
        To come on down and wear the old flat cap
        They said, “Tell us all about your ways
        And all about them Salford days
        Is it true you’re just an ordinary chap?”
        And he painted matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
        He painted kids on the corner of the street that were sparking clogs
        Now he takes his brush, and he waits outside them factory gates
        To paint his matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
        Now Lowry’s hang upon the wall
        Beside the greatest of them all
        And even the Mona Lisa takes a bow
        This tired old man with hair like snow
        Told northern folk it’s time to go
        The fever came and the good lord mopped his brow
        And he left us matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
        He left us kids on the corner of the street that were sparking clogs
        Now he takes his brush, and he waits outside them pearly gates
        To paint his matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
        And he left us matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
        He left us kids on the corner of the street that were sparking clogs
        Now he takes his brush, and he waits outside them pearly gates
        To paint his matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
        And he left us matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
        He left us kids on the corner of the street that were sparking clogs
        Now he takes his brush, and he waits outside them pearly gates
        To paint his matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
        And he left us matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs
        He left us kids on the corner of the street that were sparking clogs
        Now he takes his brush, and he waits outside them pearly gates
        To paint his matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs

        Wow
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