{"id":1084,"date":"2014-04-23T10:16:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T09:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2014-04-23T10:16:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T09:16:32","slug":"final-bits-of-detailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"Final bits of detailing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in a previous post one of the bits that have been lost along the way is the etch for the lever arrangement that sits under the fireman&#8217;s side of the cab on the A3 (and A4&#8217;s) which I think may be the ash pan lever?<\/p>\n<p>In the kit there was a single layer etch that looked (as far as I can recall) a bit like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Lever.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Lever.jpg\" alt=\"Lever\" width=\"445\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Lever.jpg 445w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Lever-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Lever-414x300.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully having seen a photo of a Finney A3 posted by Richard Lambert which showed quite clearly the missing part I remade one from bit&#8217;s of scrap brass:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6294.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1086\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6294.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6294\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6294.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6294-300x228.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6294-393x300.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not quite as elegant as the one on Richard&#8217;s loco but it&#8217;s infinitely better than the original etch.<\/p>\n<p>I still need to file down the top arms to form pins to fit in holes in the footplate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in a previous post one of the bits that have been lost along the way is the etch for the lever arrangement that sits under the fireman&#8217;s side of the cab on the A3 (and A4&#8217;s) which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-djh-a3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}