Just a quick update as I am hopefully I am of to Sao Paulo shortly. Do you ever get those days modelling when you hope they never end as all goes so well. That was today. I assembled the wheels onto the chassis and the whole shooting match rolled with no problems. Just have to fix a torsion bar for to hold the motor away from the cab and the pickup on the leading wheel the other two will be wipers on the treads hidden by the tanks.

Then I thought I ought to do the footplate to check things I remade the buffer beams as the buffer mountings were the wrong shape. One thing leads to another and I started the cab, and just look what happened. Again my thoughts are with painting so I am trying to keep the body separate from the footplate and smoke box.

Just checking the cab roof it looked a little small, I think itis called tight.

Well if all goes well and I get to Sao Paulo, I have found a steam railway to visit. Also hopefully there will be a meeting with a compressor too.