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Fruit C part 2

The Fatadder

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Another hours work this evening has the van almost finished.

 

First up the w irons were soldered onto the padding pieces, a combination of low melt and normal solder depending on the size of the packing piece (some were the thickness of the w iron, others twice the thickness.

 

With this in place I noticed an error on the floor (the wonderful thing with white metal being how easy it is to unsolder and fix a mistake.). With this done it was time to add the brakes, gas tank, and vac cylinder.

 

Finally the brackets were added for the DC brakes at the only part of the kit that has had a poorly fitting part.

 


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Strangely looks misaligned in the photo, the camera playing tricks I think

 

Remaining:
Roof
Brake linkages
Springs / axleboxes
And with the above done add the steps.

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Castle

That looks great! I'm just in the process of bashing one of these into the Y9 variant to build the one at Didcot so it's wierd that you have chosen to do it too! Mine has the whitemetal sides, Ratio ends (no, really!) and then, the detail scraped off the doors to make the later vertically planked type. I also did the etched W irons trick as well.

 

I hope to get it done by the weekend so I can post it up and we can compare notes!

 

All the best,

 

Castle

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