Another month crawls past, and with it more work.

This time however there are pictures to show!

It really does feel like I'm on the home stretch now, and I can't make my mind up if it has been a labour of love or (more probably) sheer brute pigheadedness that I won't be beaten by an old whitemetal kit...

Anyway, this is the state of play as of this morning. I managed to get the wheels wired up to the drawbar at last, and found some old Hornby safety valves and a whistle in one of my spares boxes, which were duly fitted. Handrails are brass wire and the knobs are split pins. Nameplates were salvaged from my previous attempt at a C5, before that was thrown away a few weeks ago. Following a photograph of the locomotive in Yeadons, I fitted something of a hevy-duty ash ejector to the smokebox. This came from an old Hornby 2P. Lining out on the cabsides was applied using paint pens (printer is broken at the oment...). Work still to do on the engine itself runs to painting the wheels, finishing the interior of the cab and fitting boiler bands.

Then there's the small matter of the tender to attend to.