Having built the basic cab, I was not completely happy. The basics all seem to be roughly right, but the whole is not. This lead to some thinking, what was the rest like. How did it compare to the drawing I have. My thinking is make the main parts and and adjust where needed.
So where do you start. Well, for me I decided to start with the frames and footplate. The footplate is pretty good against the drawing I have. The frames fit more or less to it too. The wheels are in the right place, which is a good start. The front of the frames look like they've been cut back. The guard irons will not fit as is. Now lining up the frames and the footplate things look a little queer.
Some adjustments needed.
After this I decided I checked the cab on the footplate again. It is to wide it sits on the footplate rivets. Not inside. It also needs to move forward to put splashers in the right place. This I think will need a new cab cutting. I will make and adjust the smokebox, boiler and firebox. Then see what and how needs found to the cab.
The boiler has been made, I do dislike half etch ones. It is about a boiler band to long. But not going to adjust until all parts are made and checked for total length.
Smoke box is next. This needed the inner shortening so the outer wrapper. The inner was about 1mm longer than the outer. The outer still needs fixing. I will screw the smoke box and boiler together to ease checking against firebox.
Fits in place, let's hope the rest will.
More soon.