Well, time has moved on and I've done more work to the carriage. However, the earlier post didn't show a picture of the chassis from underneath, so here's one.

The picture shows the end wheels mounted in the W irons, and pivoted. The rods that comes from the end "trucks" (is that the right word?) and slot in to the middle W iron are what moves the middle W iron sideways when a curve is encountered.

The Brassmasters Cleminson chassis may seem a complicated means of giving the coach a chassis that gets it round a curve, but some people (OK, why try and be discrete! - Bill Bedford, who has attached comments to this blog) obviously doesn't realise that when the chassis is being scratchbuilt, as this was, it's so much nicer to have a kit that goes together easily, with good instructions, and that fits the wheelbase. On that basis, this is a good kit and I'd recomend it to any one else who wants to make a 6 wheel vehicle.

I took the coach down to the club and tried it on the layout. I was very happy - it runs very well indeed. The only problem was that as there are no couplings currently fitted, I had to push rather than pull the coach, and in one place it buffer locked, but as there are no buffer heads in the body, this wasn't a total surprise.

I've now added all the under chassis detail, except I haven't put a representation of the drive belt for the dynamo. This will be made from a strip of paper curved and glued round the dynamo end once I have dunked the chassis in a mix of either dilute milk of magnesia or soda crystals to neutralise flux that may be lurking.

I've also added the torpedo vents on the roof, the axle boxes, and I've drilled the holes for the jumper wires on the ends. I think that's all, but the pictures show the results of my efforts.

Actually, looking at the pictures makes me very happy - I've created the steps from bits of square brass soldered behind the solebars, then I added a small piece of brass that created the backplate of the step and lastly I soldered the step itself on. All this was done by use of heat sinks (made from the very soft sprung metal clips one can get from a hair dresser), a clean and hot iron and lots of flux!

Well, the bits left to do now are:

The jumper wires. I've got Comet white metal ones but the bottom sits in a housing in the coach and I have to make these from small pieces of brass,

The hangers and springs for the axle boxes. Again I've got cast white metal ones from Comet, but trying to work out how to set them right and fix them to the coach has so far given me a headache, so I've decided to leave them for the time being.

The rain strips on the roof - I'll use micro strip.

Lamp irons on the ends.

I think that's about it - then I can start painting the coach. The livery is going to be unlined maroon, and that's about as far I've got with this apsect so far. That's for the future!