{"id":3887,"date":"2019-03-20T19:59:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2019-03-20T20:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:00:43","slug":"3887","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3887","title":{"rendered":"More on the Kirk Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Having got the Beer wagons finished I don&#8217;t seem to have much to show for recent modelling session until now.<br>Last weekend after teaching my car to swim in a flood or two I made some visible progress on the Kirk twins.<br>Rain strips fitted &#8211; very topical, step boards fitted both from Evergreen strip which comes in longer lengths than the equivalent Plastruct and is just long enough for the 51 footers. I am not sure what I will use for the 4 60&#8242; corridor coaches I have in the stash.<br>I also sorted out the articulation between the coaches and made top hat bush to set the centre ride height.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1082-1-1024x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3893\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3893\" class=\"wp-image-3893\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1082-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1082-1-300x109.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1082-1-768x280.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1082-1-500x182.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>7mm Scale Ian Kirk LNER Twin Set<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1088-1-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3894\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3894\" class=\"wp-image-3894\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1088-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1088-1-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1088-1-768x549.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1088-1-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>7mm Scale Ian Kirk LNER Twin Set<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1094-1-1024x722.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3895\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3895\" class=\"wp-image-3895\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1094-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1094-1-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1094-1-768x542.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1094-1-425x300.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>7mm Scale Ian Kirk LNER Twin Set<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1100-1-1024x699.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3896\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3896\" class=\"wp-image-3896\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1100-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1100-1-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1100-1-768x524.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1100-1-439x300.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>7mm Scale Ian Kirk LNER Twin Set<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"499\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1107-1-1024x499.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3897\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3897\" class=\"wp-image-3897\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1107-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1107-1-300x146.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1107-1-768x374.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1107-1-500x244.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>7mm Scale Ian Kirk LNER Twin Set<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now all I need to do ir remember where I put the turnbuckle castings for safe keeping after drilling them out and I can crack on with the remaining underframe detailing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having got the Beer wagons finished I don&#8217;t seem to have much to show for recent modelling session until now.Last weekend after teaching my car to swim in a flood or two I made some visible progress on the Kirk &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3887\">Continue reading <span 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