I've been playing around in Photoshop to get the positions of all the detailing on the cab ends tonight. I've spent a lads weekend away so no progress made since last time. I'm not sure I'm cut out for large scale boozing any more!
The two ends that concern locos of this era have subtle differences, of which mine is an amalgam of both – according to the drawings in MLI. To illustrate that I've made a Photoshop comp of both styles:
My end is largely of one type (high handrails, low headcode discs), but has the horn apertures of another (the lower aperture version). Also, it looks like the lamp holes on the headcode discs are on the wrong side so maybe the drawing is not 100% accurate.
The reason I need this aid is because the Beattie ends are pretty much blank apart from showing the door openings and hinges, and the cab vents. I'll need to mark out the various positions of the equipment plus drill the holes for the handrails. I always thought they sloped inwards towards the top but maybe that's an optical illusion?
Anyway, comped to the casting it looks like this...
...which will serve as a guide, along with the good old eyeball for fine adjustments. Ignore the cab window part as the drawings and the photo are from different perspectives, although the Beattie cab windows still look way off even accounting for this.
Thanks very much for all the help I've received so far, by the way, both on and off this thread. Very much appreciated.
I'm going for a bath and early night to catch up on some of that sleep I missed while sampling the delights of French alcohol into the petit hours.
Bonne nuit!