{"id":7729,"date":"2026-05-14T18:24:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7729"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:24:41","slug":"back-to-loco-modelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7729","title":{"rendered":"Back to Loco Modelling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having had a short break from loco building while finishing and painting the Bolster wagons and putting together the 3D cranes. Yesterday I fitted the horn guides and front frame spacer to the N10 and today I fitted the steam pipes and worked out where the holes for the sand box fillers need to to be made in the filler backing plates for the 8F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No photos of the N10 yet but I have some of the steam pipes on the 8F<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"949\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-1-949x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7730\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-1-949x1024.jpg 949w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-1-278x300.jpg 278w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-1-768x828.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-1-1424x1536.jpg 1424w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-1-1899x2048.jpg 1899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 949px) 100vw, 949px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"823\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-2-823x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7731\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-2-823x1024.jpg 823w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-2-241x300.jpg 241w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-2-768x955.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-2-1235x1536.jpg 1235w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8F-Steam-Pipes-Fitted-2-1647x2048.jpg 1647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having had a short break from loco building while finishing and painting the Bolster wagons and putting together the 3D cranes. Yesterday I fitted the horn guides and front frame spacer to the N10 and today I fitted the steam &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7729\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mok-8f"],"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\/7729","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=7729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7732,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions\/7732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}