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ah yes i had looked on there i am planing on joining the LNWR Society as it dose seem to be a very useful for research material.

thanks for that i thought it may have been as it seems most if not all of the coaches in the D205 and similar design series where gone by 1952 i might get the odd one done in LMS but after the princess i'll give bow pen a miss for now

Hi jonathan sorry I haven't been doing much on the coach this week been doing some work on the princess royal instead. I have ordered some pin point bearings, wheels for it. So when they trun up I crack on with it. And found out which side the battery box goes

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after setting down and just looking at it with a critical eye I am still not happy with the front steps and the cab will need to be sorted out in the future as I am starting a 1st year of CAD design at collage this Tuesday that is one thing that will be sorted out i ve the drawings for the cab i just need the skills with cad now and the spare cash feeling a bit broke after paying £750 for the 1st year of the course so it will be a while before the cab is done, but that should give me time for more practice with the bow pen.

After multiple strips and re-paints I think I have it looking much better I've fitted the pipes under the cab they are supposed to be solider to the Cartazzi frames but doing it that way they get in the way of the two screws which hold the cab and platform to the main frames so i solder them to a 2mm wide strip of brass this has a hole drilled in the middle so the cab is screws together then the pipes are just screw to the middle screw which is for the tender tow hope that make sense. the how thing needs a wash in warm water to remove any marks before the transfers and shed plats etc are added.

Thanks for the ideas every one, what I would say is buy some queen post from some one else as the ones with the kit need drilling out and after breaking 3 drills i ended up soldering the rods to the post and a right pin it was. One thing I am stuck on is the regulator box which side dose it go on, the drawing dose not say is it the corridor or compartment side? Also dose the middle step support need removing for the fitting of the regulator box or dose it site behind the center step support the drawing shows it in the center of the coach with out the post but says nothing of removing it. The book I have dose not help on this as most photos are in LNWR days the rest are LMS and there is is no photo of the 205 anyway.

To me it looks a bit like a boiler wash out plug but.... have you asked on the LNER forum.

is it on both sides of the boiler? if you have more pics of 65061

Jonathan sorry if i did not explain well enough i meant the casting such as the air vents etc to the roof as for the body to the under frame it sets on two lips at the ends so i might be able to put two screws in so the coach roof could be solder to the body and just have the screws to undo to get inside if needed by lifting the body of the frames But that is only a may be, i'll have to look and see if that would work with out gitting in the way of the bogies

i have liquid flux 9% acid I have just switch it on to have a look at the temp setting its reading 205 the solder is 145 so it may be that i'll up the temp and run over the joins latter see if that improves them, well we talking solder can i use 145 to solder white metal casting to the aluminum roof?

the iron is 48watts 100c to 450c its just had a new iron brought for it as the old one died on it, i'll swop the tip latter see if that helps as its got the one it came with on at the moment

hi David i am pleased that i have manage to inspired to buy one, what I would say is the delivery time can be on the slow side i ordered this one on the 16th of June and it turned up the first week of August saying that it didn't stop me ordering a D133 the next day hopefully it wont take till October to get here. hi Jonathan it might have been it was a bit low as I did take one side off one side and put it back on about 0.25 mm higher after cutting, and fitting the roof the was a gap along the whole length of the coach. and was worried about ending up with two blobs for the ends and i don't think I reset the heat after or it could be i just need to improve the technique.

thanks they are good books i slowly working my way buying them all i think its 7 now. any way here's some more pics most is self explanatory but ask questions if you wish. the D205 were double ended brake composite and where in built 1910 but where never tri-composites unlike others of the same time they where all gone by 1952. as I model BR it will have to be pre 52. dose any one know if they would have been counted as secondary stock and if so would they ever have seen blood an custard or would most still been in LMS colours the book i have is the LNWR coaches including WCJS but as NO colour photos and no pic of the 205 which dose'nt help

couple of shot of the body work on the under frame will be done tomorrow

handel fitted to the ends

work done last night with door handles an grab rail done the tumblehome also done

i think this is the 4th pant job might even be the 5th on some parts but it dose look much better

the coach dose have a tumblehome and no you have to do it your self (after i found out what a tumblehome was learnt something today thank you) it will be a all solder construction you cant beet it for strength and speed no time wasted on drying i will put more pics when work starts over the weekend

have been tinking i would like a rake of ex-LNWR coaches for some time now, and after trying to scratch build some decided to buy a kit instead to save a lot of frustration. i'll be staring with the brake comp D 205. it a 247 development kit and to me looks a very nice kit but that's from some one who's never built one until now here's a pic before work starts for any one just wanting to now what you get in the box.

i don't know about brave daft i think would be a better description

the tender is back in red, but no black that will be added after the lining I'll try the lining on that tomorrow and put some pics up what I was thinking is to line the edge of the cut out and the bottom edge of tender chassis this will hopefully negate the need for the black next to it. seems some models tend to have this any way and dose not look to bad in 4mm also help to keep it a clean edge. i'll do the same with the loco platform and cylinder lining, i had it to far from the ends on the cylinder covers the rest seems it was right just too rough and wide so the is also back in the Nitromors apart from the boiler which has just had some masking to thin down the lining. any tips on lining would by welcome