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looks great to me!

Thanks for that.

This will be an interesting narrow gauge loco.

Looks great. It was always a very nice livery and you're doing it full justice, I think.

Thanks. I am struggling with paint. I have only a matt whitish paint, there is nothing gloss in my selection I could use. Being matt, and with an air temp of about 35C it dries in the pen very quickly. I can only work with the air con on. I don't like to sit in the cooled air all day, I do not think it is very good for you.

Looks like that new compressor you bought is getting bedded in and is that bow pen lining I see ?.

Thanks, They are I am not happy with the paints I am using for the lining, I thought I had them all here with me, but there must still be some in the UK. Cant just nip down the road to buy some here. I was going to try my Bob Moores lining pen but forgot all about it.

Lining looks bloody impressive to me! I suspect the back sheets were made like wagon tarps, in which case they started off black but went grey quite quickly.

Thanks I am stll hoping to get it better.

Thanks,

It is a bit different to the normal locos I make. But I am enjoying it. Another one to be sold at the end of it all.

That was going to be my clever fix for this problem. You can also use yellow to intensify the red, or spray a base with a bit of brown in it, looks a bit like red oxide but stops bleed through of the primer.

Controls and backhead are wonderful.

Thanks for the leads on colours never thought about yellow.

The back head has been worked on today so is begining to look even more the part.

I tend to mix a matt red and matt white to make a dark pink as an undercoat. I am having to brush paint as all the parts around the buffer beams and between the frames negate masking and spraying.

I am sure this will be upto your usual standard I follow with interest.

I know the area well that you have modeled, with all the quarry railways there, there could quite easily of been this like. People are always surprised how much quarrying and mineral lines there were in the location. Most think it is a pretty place to walk and to sit by the sea.

Where is your back scene a photo of? Looks to me like a place I know in Dorset.

I think this is an ideal plan for a self build, is it a sector plate at each end?

Are the brake wheels of the dished type? If they are this can be done with a piece of lead and a ball bearing..

Buckjumper,

I used to use filling putty, I never brought one with me, yes you can cet similar here it is just finding out where. They don't have halford type places. As yet not found anything, SWMBO is a lawyer so has no knowledge of such things.

Mike

Thanks I was pleased with the back head too. The model is turning out OK considering what it was to start with. Sometimes I wonder why I do these rebuilds.

Looking good, how will you fix the backhead? Will it still be deatachable or go in at the last and be permanently glued?

Thanks,

Once all is painted, I will put a dab of epoxy on the back and glue it in. I just like them removable while painting it is so much easier with it flat on the bench.

That it does. The backhead is slightly narrow, but that actually is a bonus or it would have to be fix in the cab to be built. I was very pleased with it myself. Often it is so difficult to get a decent backead and all the imformayion on what went where. I think it is more important too on tender engines.

Rob

I remember reading an article in the press, I can't remember who it was though. I normally try to do then this way so that each bit is only painted one colour. Most of the time you end up with the smokebox attached to the boiler, but that is quite easy to mask.

Thanks Paul. I was pleased the way the green went on with the celulose thinners.

Thanks Rob. It would of been handy to do it just once. I had anther bash at it today. Thought I had got all the brass but still got a few bits to solder into the cab.

You will probably find it had the steam heating equipment, the chances are they just removed the hose from where it attaches to the tap. It is just something some of the sheds did in the summer months.

very interesting again.

I think this is coming on very well, as you say no other way of doing the vacuum pipes.

I don,t like the digital verniers, they are like calculators and give spurious results if the batteriesare on the way out. At least with the calculator you have some idea if the answer is correct. I messed up a whole batch of machining when working as a clockmaker because of a digital caliper.

That is fantastic. I would love to see it in the flesh. I have not been tothetransport museum for years.

I am enjoying this build of yours. It must be very satisfying making something so large.

I have often looked a works drawings of old wooden vans, as a carpenter I am always interested in the joints and methods of constuction. Modelling in 7mm you often forget how big some of the bits of timber were.

Do you make all your own iron work? Or can you buy wheels and W irons?

Looks really good, I am trying to figure out what scale you are working in here. I am thinking it is 4mm?

It was a bit of a gamble with it not having a storage tank, but weight was the problem,as it needed to come from the USA. But I am very pleased with it. The instructions say to let it rest after 10 minutes continuous running. Even using most of the other morning it was never running more than 3 minutes at a time.