It's been a few months since I last posted anything, if you've been waiting for another entry, apologies.

I titled this thread about a deliberate mistake. Well, I got the tender chassis the wrong way round. In reality, the wheelbase of the real thing is 6' 6" + 6' 0", whereas I thought it was the other way round. Once I'd discovered this error, I had to work out how to turn the chassis round, which eventually I managed. I've also had to find a different way to fix the chassis in to the tender body, which I've also done. Needless to say, as I'm bodging a 1980's kit together, there have been no instructions and I've had to work out bits and pieces, but I feel as thought I'm getting there.

As you can see from the pictures below, there's not a lot of work left to do to finish the model - cab and tender handrails, rear guard irons, fall plate etc. so all small details, and of course, these are the bits that take the time to work out, but I feel as though there is a definite light at the end of the tunnel.

Phil

If you're thinking the front buffers are wrong, perhaps they are. The loco I'm modelling, however,is 62785, the last of the E4's, and I have a photo of the loco at Cambridge in 1958 which shows that the buffers are definitely not the group standard that are on the tender. I had a set of Kean Maygib Midland coach buffers (No, I don't know why I had them!) in my box of spares that are very close to the buffers on the loco in the photo, so that's why I've used them.