Ruston's Victorian Industrial locomotive scratchbuilds

[Ruston]

Thanks, chaps.

 

I went a bit crazy and got a lot done, today. The chassis now has buffer beams and lower firebox sides, and the additions to the bodywork are a weatherboard and spectacle rims.

The rims are made of 10 thou. brass and the thickness of the rim is 0.6mm, which is getting to be as very fine and delicate as I can make.

 

I'm quite chuffed with the smokebox front, which includes another delicate piece of milling in the door hinge. The hinge is too fine to punch rivets in, so these will be repersented using Archers transfers, after the brass has been given a coat of etch primer.

 

Other less noticable work are the new frame plates and the raising in height of the boiler. It didn't look right and it was only when measuring the drawing to make the cab.bunker side sheets that I realised that I had made it too low. It now sits 2mm taller by making packing pieces and soldering them to the plates that fix it to the running plate.