I've also sprayed the one I've done with some matt black paint, just as a protective measure really, it was starting to corrode.
I've not started on the new white metal castings for the second bogie yet. I thought that is crack on with the body shell, to make a change from endless work on the bogies.
I thought that soldering brass may be a little less tricky. And it is really, though you do need to get a lot of heat in there. My latest snag is the reinforcing strips of brass angle that run along the lower edge of the body shell. These are flat packed etchings, and have to be cut to length and folded to a right angle before soldering.
I don't own a miniature folding machine, so I did them in a vice.
The first turned out ok, and is now tacked onto the inner body side quite neatly. The other, however, hasn't folded over quite as neatly, and has a slight curve in it, and also has some unevenness in it.
I'm not sure how to straighten it, so I've got it clamped into the inner corner of a piece of aluminium angle. I'll leave it overnight and see if it has straightened up.
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