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| colinpeake | 18 Jun 2009, 09:09 PM |
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Callum - livery is likely to be green... It seems to have been a while since the last update, much of the last month has been spent altering, adjusting and adding bits to the loco body, it has all taken longer than expected, but I am now prioritising this loco in order to (hopefully) have her ready for September. A lot of metal parts have gone on since the last update, some are firmly fixed in place, others such as pipework free until after painting.  Chimney and dome are LMS 8F parts, the dome needed some alterations to suit a parallel boiler!  Lubricator is scratchbuilt from a lump of Dapol railbus underframe part!  Safety valves are from the spares box (well, Dad's spares box...), surround from more Dapol railbus undergubbins. Injectors soldered up from wire and a spilit pin, steam pipe from wire.  Tender is much modified Farish 8F, with the coal space cut out, new framing and steps around the base, new bufferbeam and N-Brass buffers.  The other side of the loco. I am not too happy with the handrails, the finest 4mm scale knobs I could find are too big really. An order is in for 2mm scale knobs and finer wire, this will mean I have to plug the holes in the boiler with plastic rod, fill and re-drill. But it should look better! Not far from the paintshop now, I hope  Colin |
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