Modelling in the Garden

The lovely weather this weekend has had me doing a bit of modelling in the garden encouraged by Chris to spend more time out side.

In the garden

 

This is the fruits of my labours – the chassis with it’s cut outs for the horn blocks and the rivet holes drilled out for fitting brass lace pins because the etched rivets were too big…

LNER F8 001

 

And the ash pan and motion plate. The plan is to use this motion plate as a template to make a new one that fits with my slide bars.

LNER F8 002