Hi
It's been a nice sunny day in deepest Shropshire, so I was able to get the camera out to point at the Fowler.
The body is built on a cradle attached to the valances, so the whole thing is nice and square.
The only downside is that I can't try the chassis for fit, but I'd rather have the cradle.
All castings are brass or nickel silver, no w/m. It's got the wrong chimney on at the moment, But I have a replacement from Laurie Griffin.
A basic chassis, but fine. I've used the old style Slater's insulated hornguides - the loco will have split axle pick up using Steph's kite rod method as an insulator.
The cylinder unit has, as usual, had my adjustments to make it fully demountable. You can see from the pattern of the black hornguides visible that the cut outs in the chassis did not match the Premier rods I am using. The chassis was set using a Hobby Holidays jig set using the Premier rods.
Some of the cut outs in the chassis for the cylinder formers and valve gear supports are a bit of an agricultural fit. Nothing that can't be dealt with, and it's still the best kit produced for the Fowler 2-6-2T
So, that's where I picked it up last night.
Richard