Well, despite not having updated this blog for months, I have been working on the IHA in fits and starts. This where we are now: hood completed, end platform (from TPM's lovely ferry fittings etch) in position (temporarily, for the photo), still just balanced on its bogies for now but generally looking quite like the real thing.

This was the only decent shot I got before the batteries in my camera packed in, so it'll have to do for now. There are some wierd perspective effects in this photo which I think are linked to the macro setting on the camera. The model is actually pretty square.

More on this over the weekend, I hope. Lettering boards to be added to hood sides and underframe, brakewheels and ferry tie-downs to be fitted, buffers (and the buffer beam at the platform end) to go on, a couple of minor end details to complete and that'll leave just the hood securing hooks, which I still don't have much idea about how to tackle.

Jim