Steph Dale
Western Thunderer
Excellent! He's a nice, although very busy, chap. I'm sure he'll help if he can.
Steph
Steph
What a lovely looking thing, well done!The tank !!!!
A strange shape, and the main feature, so I thought I'd better get on with it.
Nickel ends with some brass stretchers, and a top provided the flat bits.
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Pretty straightforward so far, but the bendy bits were fun, I've invented a whole volume of new profanities during the process.
I used brass for the sides as it was marginally softer, but still a ********** to form.
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I have two sets of Spitfire's laser cut frames/footplate and not suprisingly the next one will have a box tank - even if they didn't build that variety.
Doesnt look like wood to me. Though I do agree a change like that would be to prevent rust buildup.It may be that the photos of 229 show pieces of wood placed on the tank, I guess to stop rain collecting and causing rust.
Im not THAT bad at soldering!The secret Trevor, is not to get solder everywhere in the first place.