Thanks Paul, I looked last night but they all had threads on them.
A couple of days ago when the sun shone I popped outside and coaled the tender for the J6. You might wonder why I did it outside? Well it's...
I like those and may have to invest in some myself when I get back to wagon building.
This week has seen more work on the J6 most of which isn't really photogenic as it's been to do with assembling and fitting the inside motion...
I solder on a piece of plate glass - the shelf out of an old fridge is ideal.
Welcome to Platform 1 Robert :welcome:
Welcome to Platform 1 VRGunzel, from a wet Wensleydale :welcome:
Welcome to Platfrom1 Kevin, :welcome:from a very wet Yorkshire Dales
For a bit of light relief, I took the secondary saddle for several brief trips on the mill until I got it to sit at the same level as the main...
At this point there was 0.1mm difference in the height of the DA saddle casting and my scratched up one from nickel so I popped it in the mill for...
Hi Andy, Apparently there was on early locos before they had different boilers fitted later in life, behind the rear two splashers. But they are...
Welcome to Platform 1 Lance, from a rather overcast Wensleydale :welcome:
Before taking more off the middle splashers, I eased the cut outs and bottom of the boiler at the firebox end to get it to sit better against the...
As sometimes happens I had a little distraction from levelling up the boiler. While stripping the firebox off to adjust it to get it to sit down...
Hi Pete, I agree, when you are building for yourself, it's easy to accept a compromise that you perhaps wouldn't if you were building it for...
Since my last post I haven’t had much time to spend on modelling but having tacked the cab on I did get to drilling and fitting the firebox to the...
One last post on this for now. I did the sub assembly a bit out of sequence to the instructions, purely because I am fitting this in between a...
Warren Haywood has finished painting the Great Central Railway Class 5A Dock tank. He sent me a couple of photos of what it looks like before it...
Next up is one of the trickiest bits of the build. Bending the footplate (Part 75) to fit the valence. The instructions suggest fitting part 53 to...
I suspect it's because all the letters will have been cut out by hand
