Here's the latest on the B12 re-work.

First - those who have been following this so far will note the replacement air pump. this one is pure GER and actually correct for the particular B12 that I am doing - although others had different size pumps and there were also some minor differences in mounting height.

Looks much better.

More work on and around the front bogie has taken place - still unsure about the new brass frames over the bogie - they need to be further inboard I think. I may re-work that.

Oh - and I changed the buffers too - didn't like the originals and had trouble mounting them due to the lack of a 'spigot'. These fit better although I had to make base-plates for them.

Still much to do of course on the loco body.

Having said that the tender is now more or less complete apart from weathering.....and even has a load of real coal now. The DCC decoder and sound is in, all the wiring has been installed from scratch and tested - and it's running (and sounding) well.

Awaiting delivery of a few sundry parts and then I can get on with the detailing of the front end, particularly on the buffer beam.