Develop a new, powerful colony – it's up to you. Based on Germany's successful PC-Game-Franchise, ANNO 1701 for Nintendo DS is original development utilizing the unique options offered by the Nintendo DS. The island worlds of ANNO 1701 can be explored, developed and controlled solely by using the stylus. Anno 1701: Dawn of Discovery is a real-time strategy video game of the Anno franchise for the Nintendo DS.It is published by Disney Interactive and makes extensive use of the system's touch-screen capabilities. There are three game mode options, consisting of a story mode, continuous play, and multiplayer.It has been released in Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States. ANNO 1701 for Nintendo DS is a new development offering maximum user convenience and control. Three game-modes: a full-fledged campaign with more than 15 missions, a versatile endless-game-mode and a multiplayer mode with configurable settings for up to four players on ready-made maps offering endless fun. Anno 1503. Anno 1701 takes you into the thrilling world of the 18th century and offers you three exciting game modes. The extensive Campaign Mode includes a Tutorial and allows you to build your colonies and settlements brick by brick from the ground up, guided by a trusty advisor. Alternatively, you can choose to play in Continuous Mode, or Multiplayer.

Comments Off on 6″ Traction Engine Part 1 I started building the 6″ scale version of the Little Samson traction engine shortly after finishing the 3″ one. I liked it so much that i felt it would be really nice to have an identical pair of engines, albeit in different sizes: quarter scale and half scale. I started to home in on the 3' Little Samson model, the casting being available from Edward George, whose book 'Scale Model Traction Engine Design and Construction' I had brought and read cover to cover, (and still is used very very regularly). I even brought the drawings to see if there was anything that I thought 'that's beyond me'.

I'll start at the end with this engine. It came in three weeks ago and I'm really smitten by it - beautifully made, fit and finish is excellent throughout, the paintwork shows just what can be achieved with nothing more than a top quality brush and it runs like a sewing machine.

Steel boiler by Bell Boilers of Gloucester, steel tubes expanded in, 125psi working pressure, feed by injector and crankshaft pump. Twin safety valves, which uniquely in this design exhaust into the chimney, a very civilised arrangement - you barely hear them lift.

The boiler was delivered at the end of 2009, the engine was completed in 2010 and first registered for the road in that year. It has been steamed seven times in total and remains in as-new condition throughout. The work of a talented engineer, who warmed up for this project by building the same engine in 3 inch scale - his log of the build of this one has subsequently been published as a book, which I would recommend whether or not you are planning to build a 'Little Samson', it contains a great deal of information useful to building any type of traction engine in a home workshop.

Complete with a set of drawings and double tender-mounted seat, there's a clip of it running outside the workshop here.

Length 7 ft
Width 35 inches
Height 55 inches