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We are fortunate to have the likes of yourself, with the dedication and skills to create such a work of art. I hope to get to see her running in the not too distant future.

Great that the RUclips link was posted in the Transport Museum Wythall Facebook page.. Nice restoration, well done !

Great video! I've subscribed! I hope to visit Wythall again this year.

lol my friend is in here

Absolutely wonderful piece of engineering. Thank you so much for sharing your efforts. Truly wonderful 👍

Well done. I admire you for taking on a King for your first loco!

Hello friend what is the diameter of this red wheel?

btw 20:46 ...viewers must realise that is NOT a surface plate but actually a lapping plate. The gunge in the grooves should be diamond lapping paste. I've not looked beyond this.

That is a quite outstanding job, a King is reborn! (albeit in miniature form)

Lovely work. Thanks for sharing the video and processes you used to build the locomotive. Brilliant.

Very good workmanship to Exhibition standard well done. The design of this model closely follows the full sized loco and is a picture to enjoy. I am not very patient so I look to the quickest way to finish my models. I design my models to capture the looks of the original so they are not scale models. The Stevenson design of boiler works well but very tedious to make especially the silver soldering. I have found that the Smithies design of model boilers is very easy to make and using gas firing works well Another advantage of this is the water capacity is large giving a good reservoir of steam I cut out rivets to be replaced with a few nuts and bolts, laser cutting all plate work silver and soft solder used as necessary. I use my lathe for all machining with some novel ways of holding ark ward work pieces. The build time for say a 3 1/2"Gauge Schools tender loco was about 9 months.

What a incredible piece of engineering skill. I’ve been interested in steam all my life purchased the plains for William a 31/2 gauge loco by Martin Evans 30 years ago. Never started to try and build it as I sold my lathe and miller to house move. The series has given me the push to start a build it won’t be a 71/4 king for sure but maybe a Hermes. Thanks for the inspiration.

An absolutely stunning job, makes me want to start on one myself, the coincidence is that my lathe came from my friend's father who used to build locos back in the 80s. I since got a milling machine for building custom special cinematographic attachments and supports. Many thanks again for sharing this very educational and comprehensive video.

Thankyou for sharing your build. As someone whose just getting into the hobby it’s really awesome to see one of my favourite locos in 7 1/4” in such detail. Outside of this series I haven’t seen much footage of a live steam king on RUclips. Again, amazing model!

It is absolutely incredible how much time and effort this takes, not to mention the right connections and a bit of luck, very well done.

Technical Esctasy. 😎 👍 😁

Excellent work!

Like you I am not an engineer but have been loco building for 40ish years. Your work is excellent. I hope you have a few more locos's left in you.

Many thanks for making this diary, an absolute gem of an instructional and inspirational project on relatively low cost equipemt. Well done

Many years ago I was approached by Trevor Shortlands to cast a few items in my backyard foundry for this engine Trevor's patterns were first class. Well it had been his job for many years. His knowledge of the full size king was extensive and it is nice to see such a superb engine built from his drawings.

Thats is quite superb Dennis. A tribute to your wonderful skills and a lovely engine. I have a King James 1 but its only 7mm scale rgds Graham Powell

Very nice loco and track you have there! Did you build her yourself?

lovely! haven't yet run my Jessie "Edith" at ground level.

What scale Hunslet is this 3" or 4" Scale?

The C19 and Nigel sound great,but how did you manage to load up the film in reverse in places???? LOL

Nice to be having a steam up,not had one this year yet just been running the diesels.Great shots of Nigel.

Lovely to see Nigel up and running again,sounds great.

good clip, cold but looked like good runs regards Simon

What a lovely little video - thanks for the ride.

great footage mate

Nice to see everybody enjoying a good steam up,looks a good track must visit that asap.Thanks for sharing.Chris.

Great video there wished I could of come but was away, see you all in 3 weeks

Thanks Jack, see you Saturday

Great video Reece

Thanks Chris, the valves are starting to lift again intermittently. Not sure why but we are going to have them out again to take a bit more of the valve buckle.

Nigel is running well and lovely and clean,great video.

Thanks Jack, sorry I didn't get any of you driving! Maybe next time :)

Great video Reece great loco to drive :)

Thanks for the comments Jack!

Hello it's jack, great video ! Love that loco :)

Thanks for the comments. If you would like to visit there is a list of our running days on the Wythall Transport Museums website, Thanks Reece

Nice loco,will have to try and visit this year

Thanks Chris, she is beginning to run well now!

Great! nice to see "Nigel"out and running so well,looked liked everybody was enjoying a drive....Cheers Chris.

Amazing look great

Thanks for the kind comments Chris. We should start running her more as she has been neglected a bit since Nigel came along! I'm sure whatever cake Rosie does it will be lovely, Best wishes both, Reece

Lovely to see her out and running well,see you all again in 2014...Cheers Chris and Rosie......What flavour cake do you want this time?????

It was very wet! I'll pass the comments on to Den, thanks Chris

Looks a bit wet but everybody enjoying themselves,great loco.