A delivery from Brassmasters today with the remaining parts for the Dean Goods, I have replaced the oil pipe cover with the Finney part (which has a little more meat to it than the Oxford one). A pair of Finney lamp irons were added to the footplate (I think these were missing on the base model), I am debating replacing the end lamp irons as well. Finally on the engine the Finney smokebox door dart was glued in place.
Moving onto the tender, a pair of Springside break / water
The first job for this project was to completely strip the existing awful paint finish from the model, it was stripped down to its component parts. This included the removal of the chimney, splashers, smokebox door, fall plate, whistles, handrails and buffers. The removed parts were stuck to a length of masking tape to keep safe, somehow it has disappeared in the garage. Thankfully this only contains the whistles, pipes along the footplate and buffers, so nothing irreplaceable.
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