This is just one of those side projects. That it never actually occurred to me ,That anyone else would be interested in.But what do I know.

Every now and then I cobble together a Locomotive for 28mm's
Such as Lons cereal packet card narrow gauge locomotive. After this one( a couple of year's ago now.) I figured I'd like to have an easier/quicker method. To turn out a cab interior. In all honesty I'd been contemplating it but never actually getting around to it Since I made the space 1889 ether flyer.
So I knocked up a quick version then made a stamp mould . Which I've been using ever since. When I know I've a locomotive to make at some point in the near future.I start by sticking every piece of leftover clay into the mould as I work on other sculpts. Sooner or later the moulds full and it turns out a 90% complete boiler unit/ thingy . A little extra tweaking and I have a unique version for each one off locomotive.
So I figured it'd be nice to have some miniatures to populate the footplate. So I mentioned to 1st Corps that I thought a set of locomotive/ industrial crew miniatures might go down well.
At some point I mentioned The poses would fit in with the boiler thingy I was using. Which turned into might as well cast it up for you as well.( bonus saves even more time.)
Then it was mentioned that if I added it to the Follies Range. Undoubtedly someone will ask does it fit Sarrisa MDF trains? I didn't know if it did or didn't. So I went rooting for that Sarrisa locomotive. I'd been given ( those who are familiar with my views know I'm not a fan of it in the slightest.)
Bugger.. It fits with around a 2mm gap at the bottom. So I thought great I'm stuck with a set of masters that fit someone else's locomotive.. So last week as a courtesy I phoned Sarrisa last week . Said I was stuck with these masters that coincidentally fit in the European locomotive. Was that an issue for them,and would they prefer them to be their product, Or even produced by a third party they already worked with. Because I'd like to see them cast. Explaining that I was dropping off work on Friday ( today) and if they had any objections then they wouldn't be in today's batch for casting.
I was asked did the masters fit all the locomotives in their range. I said I've no idea because they were never made to fit one let alone all of their locomotives.
Not so much as an email back let alone a call by this morning. So take that as they don't see as an issue or product they want themselves. So into the moulds at 1st Corps they go.
( a little vexing since I went to the trouble of knocking up a full second copy of parts and added them to the locomotive as an example of how of the set could fit in a Sarrisa locomotive and not over fill the space. But hey ho at least I've got something of Chuck on eBay.

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