Jon Nazareth
Western Thunderer
I made a start on the underframe for the 2nd class carriage which I am building out of styrene. Some people don't like styrene but I do. I find it easy to work with and very forgiving. These are the axle guards made up of two etches sweated together, which went very well. The spring is a casting from a pattern that I made up some years ago and had cast in Australia. I know, a long way to go but someone recommended the chap to me and I had seen some of his work before hence Australia. Being whitemetal, it's very fragile where the spring meets the hanger. To give it some strength, I'm going to drill a couple of holes in the vertical legs of the axleguards and some corresponding ones in the back of the spring. I'm then going to glue in some pins into the spring and these will locate into the axleguard holes previously drilled. All will be fixed with araldite after lining up.
Jon