I have progressed a little with the chassis's and the body. There is a lot that needs to be made, or corrected, this is not a problem just makes it slow. I am waiting for s few parts from the UK, and I also have order a book the Power of the Light Pacifics, or whatever it is called. Should give me a little more help.
I have got a basic rolling chassis now, I am trying to position the footplate now. It comes to light the rear section is to wide. Still got to do the pony and bogie. The pony looks like it will work well without too much messing around. The bogie I think will be a different story.
I have also finished off the compensation on the tender chassis. This is now rolling too. I had to make up some brake hangers from nickle silver, and some brake blocks from copper clad board. These will be added along with other brake rigging in the near future.
The cab sides and roof were one etching this is now made into 2 sides and a roof. I had to make a new cab front as the kit one did not fit the body width. I also made up a couple of formers for the front and rear of the firebox. This I hope will aid joining it all together. The front cab windows will also have made but I will do those when the cab shell is together. The cab roof and body roof where run through the rollers just to give me more of an idea where it was all going.
Not sure if I would not of been better off throwing the brass in the scrap bucket and selling the cast iron wheels. But as I have got this far it will now be complete. It is an intersting project. The detail in the kit seems to change. There are plent of rivets to punch out on the loco body, but the tender seems to be an after thought. As there is no detail to the front or the top. It is almost like it was designed made and someone said where's the tender as it was being put in the box.
Edited by N15class
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