Are the splashers too far out to accomodate the wider wheels. If so and you were thinking of moving them in a bit you may as well cut the chassis. It might be worth checking if the splashers are correct to the body. The other thing is what coupling rods do you plan to use. I am not that familiar with the 22xx but I suspect it is a standard GWR size.

Don

I'm not sure if it's the angle of view but it looks as if the difference in mispositioning is different for the middle and leading wheels - which presumably would mean two cuts.  If you only have to cut the footplate I don't think that would be a big problem for you (especially you ) but if it results in the smokebox finishing up in the wrong place you will also have to cut the body and that could present a problem if it involves the boiler as the taper is more or less constant.

So before cutting anything I would think it essential to check the position of the top feed and smokebox against the new chassis.

I suspect, as Bernard has suggested that your chassis is 2mm, your body is N. I would adjust the chassis to suit the body. The main problem with chopping up the body is that it will always be weak around the joints. 

As an aside, I am very interested in your chassis building method using 0.5mm PCB, I'd be interested in more details on that.

Jerry 

Although it might be optical illusion I also think the axle centres errors are proportional to the splasher spacings. Personally I wouldn't want to try cutting/shutting the footplate to suit. Cuts/joints like this always seem to show, no matter what you do to try and hide them.

If you use double thickness coupling rod etches then you can fairly easily cut/shut these to match the axle centres, especially if you start off with longer than needed dimensions.

Izzy

Hi Julia. 

I think if it were me I'd modify the chassis to fit the body. For the sake of a couple of mm, it seems to be creating a lot of extra work in modifying the body moulding. 

I guess this is one drawback to adapting RTR N gauge models for 2mm finescale!

Tom. 

I'm with the majority, Julia, and would suggest a re-draw of the chassis. Peco have done a fairly good job with the splashers. The width over them is 12.8mm compared to the Farish Pannier and Jinty of a massive 15.8mm! I replaced the splashers on my Jinty and got the width down to 12.7mm and this looks very acceptable with 2FS wheels. My pannier which, sadly, I didn't reconstruct has always looked faintly ridiculous with the wheels so totally out of synch with the splashers. The Peco 2251 body is an excellent production and, for myself, I would be reluctant to do anything too drastic too it.

David