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<\/a><\/a>The photos are not in the best setting but I am not geared up to take photos of something so big in my light tent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still to fit are front buffer and coupling, backhead, cab doors, and glaze the cinder guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an aside I was recently discussing cab dials with Chris Simpson and I thought that I would share my solution to the issue. I didn’t send the backhead to Warren as I had already painted it and so I had largely forgotten about the dials themselves until test fitting the backhead after paint. They were still just brass turnings. So I carefully put in a spot of Vallejo grey primer into each face and let that dry for a couple of days then I added a top coat of Vallejo Arctic White. The discussion with Chris had been around printed ones but my struggle was really getting them cut out and although I am sure that I could have probably turned a too, to do it I elected to use a 0.5mm propelling pencil and draw in the graduations and hands of the dials and I am quite pleased with how they came out and will use the method again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Progress has been steady due to my temporary promotion to head cook and bottle washer but this afternoon I was able to fit the loco body after first making sure that the chassis and tender ran without issue. I still … Continue reading <\/a>