deepfat

wow that is some seriopus model building. I am waiting for Aberdeen Commonwealth to turn up and have a PDK brass kit on the go but not happy with the compensated chassis as it binds when I had connecting rods..

I bought a Comet Kit etched brass Merchant Navy Class chassis with the idea of building 21C1 Channel Packet in original conditional with the "widows peak". I bought the wheels from Markits and started scratch building the body from plasticard. That was many years ago! Of course Hornby brought theirs out! I might build it as an austerity Merchant Navy. Bulleid designed it and they made a wooden mock up of it, but they never built any!

I must admit, I'm not a great lover of compensated chassis. The Comet chasis had compensation, but like you, I found the coupling rods would bind. I soldered the chassis up solid in the end.