Son of a biscuit-eater! After the pre-Christmas tidy-up, can I find the parts for the "problem" class loco?!?
Meanwhile I put some "Quik steel" in the tender chassis of "Lion", thinking to mount a tension-lock coupling, but it was too low, so I went back to the old idea of a bar across the buffers. So far, not so bad... but then there was a mystery short-circuit. It took ages to trace it: the screws holding the chassis together were coming out and touching the backs of the driving w
A K's cast white metal kit for LNWR 'Problem' class 2-2-2 "Lady of the Lake". Retrieved from the fabled Round Tuit box and still on the vacuum-packed cards. Silly me, I've fixed the footplate before fitting the driving wheels, so this is going to be fun. One of the bearings still needs opening up with the broach, but has twice come unglued from the chassis.
The tender is going together slowly: I'm fitting a Tenshodo spud bogie with about the right wheel spacing. The wheels themselves are a
