Hi, rather than telling you a bit more about the workshop I thought I would show you what is going on.  Today, after two months work I have completed a batch of 16mm to the foot Baldwin 50HP gas Mechanical locos.

The photo shows four of the five locos sitting on the only free space in the workshop-the guillotine!
The engines are built from my own parts.  The frames are laser cut steel, the bonnet and jackshaft gear box are whitemetal.  All the plate work is etched brass and the details are lost wax castings. They are battery powered with two speeds like the prototype.

A close up shot of one of the batch of engines.
The prototype was developed in the First World War by the Baldwin Company in the US for the French.  These locomotives were used by all the Allies.  Unlike the War Department steam engines they didn't make their presence known close to the front line with a column of smoke and steam.  Consequently they were sought after.  They were the first rugged and reliable internal combustion locomotives of the period.  Many survive to this day on preserved narrow gauge railways in France.  One, much altered is on the Festiniog Railway in the UK.