{"id":614,"date":"2013-09-14T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T09:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2013-09-14T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T09:35:24","slug":"making-steady-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Making steady progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite having quite a busy social life at present with one thing and another I have still made some progress on the F8<\/p>\n

I finished splitting the axles – they just need a final clean up – only one of these is for the F8 though (the one with the two splits)<\/p>\n

\"LNER<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s the one that got away – I was doing them last thing at night and I can only surmise that I didn’t take enough time to work the epoxy fully through the spilt. The upside is that I can make use of the stub axles……. or so I am telling myself.<\/p>\n

I assume that Slaters sell single axles?<\/p>\n

\"LNER<\/a><\/p>\n

While the epoxy has been drying I also made small start on assembling the boiler.<\/p>\n

\"LNER<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see from the photo the boiler bands are formed from a half etched recess and then an etched strip that fit’s in the recess but has folds\/holes etched in for the cleats. I wondered if I could use a scale hardware stud to represent the fastener.<\/p>\n

\"LNER<\/a> \"LNER<\/a><\/p>\n

I have only done the one so far (and I need to centre it yet) – from the instructions there are two that will be visible beyond the ends of tanks. The rest need to be cut short when a cut out is made for the motor.<\/p>\n

Regards Rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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