The 1361s are my first attempts at Loco kits and whilst quite challenging, it's also very satisfying, at least so far! If the first chassis was a runner I'd be like a pig in the brown stuff, a nettle I need to grasp, but not yet.
I think the thought of soldering put's a lot of people off, but my dad showed me how to do it when I was around 7 and it's never worried me. The thing to do is practice, we've had several club members that couldn't or wouldn't solder, but once they were shown how to go about it and were allowed to have a play on some etch waste they are reasonably proficient. Practice and more practice, same as most things, you get shown the basics and develop your own technique and most importantly learn from your mistakes. Which was what my first apprenticeship instructor drummed into us. I'm going to show you how to do it, your going to go away and c*ck it up and then I will tell you how to go about correcting it and then you will sort it out. With that came the confidence to attack most things and if you don't know ASK!
