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Winton certainly isn't for the faint of heart. Much of the casting work needs to be thoroughly cleaned of flash, a reasonable amount of drilling needs to be done, and only the basic details are included. To make the engine comparable to even the roughest of current engines you would need to replace all the old detail castings with lost wax brass fittings from Kemtron, Cal Scale, etc. The running gear needs a lot of attention to have a smooth operating loco. It's just technology from the 40's and that's what you end up with when you're done. At the time this was the only route a modeler could take to get a particular model with some level of accurate dimensions. Companies like Lobaugh in O scale was offering the same kind of kits, again with their type of model being the only game in town. I would think that the Winton would only be suitable for somebody that wanted to have the engine maybe for collectible value in that they liked the early brass cast kits, or for someone with light machine shop skills that could really put forth the effort to do a highly detailed model, and be willing to revamp the chassis to modern can motor operation and upgrade the valve gear operation. Not an easy task. Winton could never be put in the category of brass engines as we know them today or would be reported in the Brown Book. Winton for most of his models used sand castings, not sheet brass. Solid brass boilers were the rule during those days. A few tenders would also be solid brass castings. Imagine how much they weighed. Of course a solid brass cast boiler is no lightweight, either.
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