I have been fiddling with the valve gear. As you know the valve gear was missing from the kit when I bought the kit second hand. I bought a new set from Scorpio but our post office lost it. So I have been adapting some generic casting I had.

The first job was to fit the slide bars and cross heads which were in the kit. This was straight forward. There was a little to do to get it all to fit around the front horn guides.

Next up was the valve gear, here the rods were too short. So I cut out new ones. These replace the the old ones which were cut out in such a way that I could solder to the big ends.The lift links were carefully removed cleaned up and drill, and refitted.

The valve gear and the connecting rods have been fitted upside down to the way they were design, this was so I can get the reversing and lift links in which I am still working on. There is not much room left with these wrong bits going in. But it looks much better than the stuff I did not have.

The connecting rods fitted with ease but I have left off the outer counter balance weights, so that the compensation still works.

The valve gear connecting rod unit comes out for ease of painting. The slide bars etc are fixed to the frames.

Well I know it is not correct but I am sure it will not be noticed when painted with the body in place.

Here are the pictures so you can make your own mind up about it.