Hi,
The second go on the cab roof worked fine, so that's a job ticked off.
Tender chassis and underframe; at the time of building, Clive was using Walsall wheels, a choice I could never entirely talk him out of. Further, he was using the American pick up system. Sure enough, when I tried the tender through my pointwork, it wouldn't go. There were two issues; first the back to backs were not wide enough, and second, the flanges were both too wide and too deep, hitting the chairs as it bounced along. The disc wheels themselves looked good, and being screwed in on the axles, were easy enough to put in the lathe and skim the backs, though they were tricky to extract between the pull rods. I shortened the axle length to make it easier to get them in and out. I have a flange form tool so it wasn't difficult to reprofile them.
Otherwise, the chassis was a straight kit build. I did have to reprofile the brake shoes to give a little more clearance, and I took the opportunity to just tidy the whole thing up and respray it.
The underframe washed up well, and all I have done here is tidy up the red on the buffer beam, and go round blackening a few chip and standing marks.
The tender body needs another look at. There were a few difficult to remove marks that I'm not sure about. The model will be weathered, and I'm fairly sure they will disappear under the weathering. Another look in daylight is required.
Richard