Chris's Blog - 4mm Weathering & Detailing.

Chris - that's looking like a great start. Well worth using a small drill bit (0.5mm as a pilot, then using something like a 2 or 3mm) to slowly open out the horns - you need to do this VERY carefully but it's well worth the effort and gives results as good as the brass offerings (which I think often have too smaller a horn end).

 

Will you be adding snow ploughs?

I'll be sure to carry that out on the horns, I ordered a set of small drill bit's earlier in the week. The photo's I have studied of the loco, show that it did not operate with snowploughs; certainly in it's latter days.

Chris - that's looking like a great start. Well worth using a small drill bit (0.5mm as a pilot, then using something like a 2 or 3mm) to slowly open out the horns - you need to do this VERY carefully but it's well worth the effort and gives results as good as the brass offerings (which I think often have too smaller a horn end).Will you be adding snow ploughs?

 

I seem to remember reading somewhere and by observation that 37429 never had ploughs fitted, watch somebody come up with a photo now

Spent a good many miles behind 37429 on the North Wales coast in that last summer, as well as the last day, both official and actual