Dave's 4mm scale Industrial Loco Workshop.

[Dave]

The hand rails were a real test of my soldering skills and patience. The horizontals and verticals are all flush with one another on the prototype, which meant having to solder the horizontals as butt joints to the verticals on the side rails. To do this on the ends would have been next to impossible, so I overlaid the horizontals on the outside of the verticals. It's a bit of a cheat and not exactly how they ought to be but you wouldn't notice riding by on a galloping horse. I built them all up in situ but if I do something similar in future I will make a jig and build them on the bench.

It's all had a coat of etch primer.

At least the livery will be simple. Blue all over, except for black hand rails and running plate. Aluminium window frames and wasp stripes on the buffer beams.