Back from the summer holidays and a small gathering on Friday evening allowed for what are pretty much the final bits of brass to be put on the D16/3. First to go on were the front guard irons and then the brakes on the tender. I had some fun because of the earlier issues with the folding of the internal tender chassis which was slightly on the dink owing to the 1/4 etching rather than 1/2 etching of the components which made folding it up damn near impossible. in the end I had to enlarge some of the holes so that the hangers would actually be horizontal across the chassis. I'm quite pleased with the result.

I also made up a small plate to fit between the frames and put some representation of piston rods and valve gear into the otherwise empty space. I only put on it what would have been above the level of the foot plate so you have the lifting cranks for the valve gear and a representation of the slide bars. It isn't much but is does hide the otherwise obvious 8BA nut.

The addition of brakes didn't result in the whole thing locking up or short circuiting so we are inching closer to the paint shops.

David