I then made the cab front, again using my hole punch to great effect for the front spectacle windows. I made the smokebox subframe in the shape of a tee and cut out the front and rear again from a card template fixing these together with poly cement and leaving overnight to set properly. I then wrapped this with 0.050 plasticard

At this stage I might add that I later found out my mistakes made here when I tried to fit the chimney. I drilled down through the center of the smokebox to find the subframe central member right in the way and it had to be gouged out resulting in a not too neat hole for the chimney to fix in to

My attention turned to the fitting and securing of the chassis to the base. I drilled up through the rear of the base 2mm and secured an 8ba nut over the hole with 2 part epoxy, then used a 32mm x 8ba brass bolt cut down to 20mm to fix the rear of the chassis, the nut being concealed inside the bunker. The front I secured by self tapper through the chassis base into a block attached to the underside of the base plate which sat inside the chassis frames

I've been having real problems with uploading photo recently so I'm limiting my entries now, sorry.

Continued in part 3