Well Matured
If model railway kits were like wine, then this one would be a vintage port, covered in dust and hiding at the back of your sideboard. In the late 1990’s, Wrightlines produced kits for Corris / Talyllyn Railway No 4, Kerr Stuart modified Tattoo and then followed it up with a kit for the Skylark, precursor to the Tattoo. I bought both. A start was made on the Tattoo kit by soldering up the frames and cleaning the castings. But the prospect of the outside Hackworth motion and the arrival of the Skylark brought progress to a halt. The Skylark was the first of the Wrightlines kits to use the latter style milled brass chassis. This coupled with milled rods and lack of outside motion (earlier Kerr Stuart locos had inside Stephenson valve gear between the frames) meant that I built and finished the Skylark. After the second rebuild and upgrading the motor / gearbox I had a reasonably running loco. But no appetite to attempt the Tattoo. Twenty five years have passed with me occasionally o...
