It's a little while since I last posted an update, I have been busy building the cylinders, valve gear and rest of the bits that go with it. To say the least there is a lot of detail, all in beautiful cast parts.
This is how far I have got
It's starting to come together, the slide bars are not attached to the cylinder at the moment.
This is how I got here.
I started with the slide bars.
You need to use some 0.7mm nickel silver wire to to pin the upper and lower slide bars to the cylinder front.
You remove the bits of wire between the slide bars by cutting them in the middle first and then working up to the ends.
I opened up the main cylinder castings with a large taper reamer
If you don't have one of these I can highly recommend getting one they come in handy for all sorts of things.
Here are all the bits to make up the J hangers and die blocks, the parts in the top right are for the weigh shaft.
Here they are going together.