Over the past few days I have made some good progress on the Draisine. However there were a few setbacks, but more on those later. The first task I managed to complete was the glazing of the bodywork. I superglued clear ascetate plastic onto the pieces and then trimmed them to size.

Following the glazing I tried the body out on the chassis and found the first set back problem. The chassis was too wide which meant some sanding and filing had to be done to get it to fit properly. Even then it was a squeeze:

The second setback was that the body rides slightly too high on the chassis, however this is the absolute lowest it will go and if I had not altered the chassis then yes it could have ridden lower but the chassis would have come through the top. I think that this trade off is not too bad because the wheels seem to be as close to the prototype as I could hope for in this scale with this chassis:

This morning I glued the engine housing to the floor and then after it had dried I attached it to the front of the Draisine:

It does not look too bad and I am looking forward to attaching the buffer beam to the front to see how that looks. Over the next few days I shall do the back end of the Draisine as well.

I think it is starting to look the part and when painted it will really go well in the landscape of the layouts it will run on:

One final thing though. I realised that when testing the chassis it cannot operate at decent speeds over insulfrog points. Therefore on the new layout I have decided to go with an Electrofrog turnout. The turnout motor arrived today (a Cobalt from DCC concepts in Australia!) and I have begun work on the storage cassette holders for the new layout. I am hoping to have the track down in the next few weeks. I am quite excited by the prospect of running this train through the rolling landscape at scale speeds!