hese are a little out of order but I thought continuing the discussion about the inside motion created a better flow for anyone reading this in the future.

I started by making a replacement for the upper handrail support. These are included on the etch but are quite vulnerable during handling and assembly so I managed to knock one off. I made the replacement from a strip off the nickel chassis so it’s a little more robust.

Then I moved to fitting the sand box fillers and sanding levers which I figured would be much easier to fit before I fit the boiler in place.

As it happens the sandbox filler caps were missing from my kit or at least, I haven’t found them yet. I know that Jim would have happily let me have some more but I bought the kit some time ago and it was easy enough to make some replacements.

I started with some 5mm brass bar and turned a short length to 4mm. Next, I turned a section to 3mm leaving 0.5mm at 4mm to give a step.

Repeating this, I turned a 0.9mm spigot on nth end again leaving a 0.5mm step at 3mm. Then I popped them in the spin indexer and took some off of each step to leave me a pair of flats on both the 4mm and 3mm steps. These once parted off gave me the oval sandbox filler caps.

And yes, I know that once fitted the right way up very little can be seen but I know it’s there…

Here they are fitted along with the sanding levers. I also turned some small upstands for the levers.

Those with a keen eye will also note that I filled in the back of the splashers so you can’t see the back of the wheels when looking between the frames.

I also fitted the inner tanks and filled them with strips of lead shaping it to clear the middle wheels.