Been playing with the soldering iron today, and knocked up the comet kit for the front bogie.

other than a bit of fun trying to laminate the outer frame onto the sub frame all went quite well got a bit of solder to scrape off on one side where it made a bit of a mess, but other than that its gone together nicely. the next job will be weighting it up (planning on filling the underside of it with lead) and tidying up the mounting arm.

I am also thinking that I probably aught to add a spring to get a bit of extra force onto it to make up for the light weight.

It still needs to have the wires fitted which will hold the wheels in place, but as you can see from the photos its missing one axle at the moment (one day I will get on and order a new one...) so a branchlines wheel is filling its place.

Would be interested to hear if it should have a cross piece or something at the front as it looks a bit open at the moment.

The next job is going to be working out how on earth I will attach loco to tender. thinking some kind of wire loop soldered to the back of the trailing truck maybe.....

Otherwise I guess theres always the option of looking for some kind of prototypical fixing maybe?

The other area I want to add some more detail to is filling in the gaps under the cab and on the back of the firebox where the model only has the side detail (and then a big hole). I think adding this should lose the extra daylight above the trailing truck (excluding the area where the truck's frame aught to be of course.)

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