Good Afternoon,

I have done some more work on Ginny, one of the benefits of being unemployed is lots of spare time - downside is no real money to spend on doing something you want to do like modelling. where I left off is the main body had been cleaned of flash & test fitted to make sure it is fine; since then I have cleaned up the resin motor bogie shroud that was clean of flash snipped the Spud's axles and fitted the resin shroud as well.

The trailing bogie however caused me a significant number of issues - as I originally thought it would, test fitting together & everything seemed to be fine looked all right until I test fitted with the axles in place. (I test fit my model a number of times to ensure that I am thoroughly familiar with the assembly procedure prior to actual assembly, call it OCD if you wish.)

The white metal bogie wasn't square upon further investigation one of the end pieces (a bolster) I believe is the technical term, was 1.5mm short so I did the stupid thing of filing 1.5mm off of the bolster at the other end - lovely and square... unfortunately the bogie is now too narrow to accept the axles. That was about three weeks ago and I had put the model to one side while I brooded over the subject - Ginny has appeared in one of my layout plan threads since then and if you look carefully the trailing end is actually jacked & packed on spare pieces of track to give the correct appearance for the camera.

Then latterly I had a brainwave, I was reading the Metropolitan Rolling Stock book before bed (call it light reading, the ladyfriend wasn't texting me back that night - I had upset her over something trivial.) And reading about Dreadnought Coaches it told me that in the 1930's Dreadnoughts gained K2 Type trailing bogies from withdrawn District Stock because their own Fox Bogies were cracking. What is the connection?

Radley Models have a resin Dreadnought Bogie as a separate item, and after checking photographs it is in fact a K2 Type Bogie. So dutifully ordered there & then, the bogie arrived today. All test fitted together it looks a right treat. Next step is a trip to Halfords for some Red Oxide paint and then we'll see some real progress - everything has been waiting for being able to get a 'rolling chassis'

One thing I am concerned about is gapping the Spud Motor only having a small fixed wheelbase to pickup from any suggestions on how to fit a trailing pickup prior to painting? I am rather oblivious.

Cheers,

~ Gary