Evening all

It's been a while since I put anything in here, other than the odd photo but...

In a quest to build the oldest items in my kit cupboard before I buy anything else, I've been looking at the Finney T9 kit I've had for ages. And looking. And looking.

With the realisation that there aren't going to be too many more shows for Wheal Elizabeth I finally stopped looking and decided the time had come to make a start.

At least this time the RTR model has appeared before I got round to building the kit, unlike the usual way of things.

I've not build any Finney kits before but so far I have to say I'm impressed.

The chassis has gone together very nicely so far. I have replaced the Flexichas bearings supplied with High Level Hornblocks, just because I think they're better. Gear box is also High Level with a D2 stretcher and the motor will be a Mashima something or other, replacing the as designed Portescap 1616.

The model will eventually be 30709 I think.

Bogie

Main frames

Trial Assembly

Gearbox