Holidays, DIY on the house, a couple of turnouts and finishing off a couple of other locos have got in the way of the Atlantic lately but I have done a bit more on it over the weekend.

The tender needs a bit more filler where the top plate fits the body, I need to make a new air vent and find some buffers.

I have fitted the cylinder block casting, as its a butt joint I not too certain how well it has stuck, the cylinders need filling and I need to replace the cross heads / rods as they are soft whitemetal castings and I broke one.

Also the front bogie fouls the chassis, I will try and alter the hole in the bogie and move it 2 or 3 mm forward.

Still it runs well on the straight track, and its a lot better than I thought it would be a few weeks ago.

The other locos I repaired are 2 Wills 1864 Pannier tanks, one which I painted some months ago and needed the chassis building, and another which came off Ebay with the pickups mangled, both now work and I also fitted some pickups to a K's Terrier another Ebay buy, this now needs some footsteps and the side air compresser.