Making good progress with the Baldwin Gas Mechanical (BGM for short), and now have a beautifully smooth (by push power!), chassis. Not without problems though!

Above picture shows the lost wax spring castings soldered on but just a bit too low it seems as they were fouling the cranks and had to be filed back quite considerably. Have just wondered why I didn't just re-solder them a bit higher but for this I have no answer! Even then I think they would still have required a bit of attention to get them safely out of the way. Bonnet front, buffer beams and rods went together and the rods polished up particularly well, which is a shame as they will need to be heavily weathered

All the bits.

I have a feeling that getting enough weight into this model is going to be crucial so am looking at all opportunities to get a bit of lead in. One place which was screaming out for it was the resin cast gearbox which mounts right at the front. This was drilled out from the bottom and then the resulting hole filled with lead shot and sealed with a good dose of thin super glue.

So here are all the bits together with the bonnet casting just sitting on top for now.