Few things are more enjoyable than turning a RTR-model into something different. Your work looks excellent, James!

Regards,

Stefan

Thank you!  I'm happy with the overall shape of the cab but of course it needs some more fettling, filling and filing before it ooks presentable.  I'm debating at the moment how to do the tops of the splashers, as I don't think my 0.4 or 0.5mm plastic sheet would be able to form the curves. 

A strip of thin brass sheet should be fairly easy to bend to the proper shape?

• James as ever its looking good, I form curves in plasticard by heating the sheet in warm water then bending round a suitable diameter sized formed, securing this and then submerging this into more boiling water, I leave it sitting in this until the water has turned cold

I've managed it; eventually I used a thin strip of paper which I rolled up then slowly unfurled over the splasher, having covered it (the paper) in UHU glue first.  I then worked it over with some model filler to catch the little cracks and tomorrow, once this has set, I'll take another piece of paper and some more filler over it to get a fairly strong laminate.  A bit of a throwback to my early modelling technique but it's worked quite well this time around.   

Both thin brass and heated plastic sound good ways to get around the problem in future though, the difficulty is that I didn't this time have a former of the appropriate size to form the curve against.

The cab too has seen some attention this evening, the roof and the top of the cabsheets have been sculpted into each other by coering them in filler and then filing down to a smoother finish.  

Tomorrow, or the weekend, I'll be finishing off the splasher tops and adding new boilerbands and fittings.