john lewsey
Western Thunderer
I had a look at the Pannier today
Rather nice
Rather nice
At this frustrating point myself.Ticking a few more items off the checklist today, so far.
I have soldered the sandboxes to the footplate. I was considering glue of some kind, but as they are substantial white metal castings, I managed to low-melt them into place without singeing fingers too badly.
Those nasty bunker filling bits were tackled next.
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The driver's side wasn't bad, but judicious dabs of low melt solder into the cracks, followed up with scraping and some whizzydisc work with a 240 grit sanding disc worked quite well. The rivet detail has been sacrificed, but I am pondering the notion of replacing it with minute drops of PVA after priming.
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The fireman's side was much worse, and needed a fair amount more solder to plug the unevenness. Again, rivet detail has gone south, and a little work with fine wet'n'dry is still needed, but that's a whole bunch better than it was an hour ago.
Next on my list are the steps on the front of the tanks. Typically, my chosen loco seems to have different steps to other members of the class, so I shall do some intense peering at contemporary images before I decide to go with the apparent current form or the "standard" steps.