Slowly getting to where it needs to be. There's a bit more work I'd like to do on the footplate. I've fitted larger splasher sides. These were taken from the drawing I have. At least now the wheels will have space to rotate. Although the insides will need cleaning out when it's remove from the wood block.
The tanks were folded up next, not quite as neat as I would have liked. I find it very hard folding half etch. So a bit of filler or solder will be used later.
I added a smoke box back and firebox front. Also needed to roll a boiler under side, measurements taken from a Scorpion kit I've just bought. I just had to shorten by a millimetre which I thout was pretty good for a fifty year old kit. But the underside of the tanks should go under further. I'm going to have to mount the boiler on something and use it to reach the tanks.
The cab front is tracked to the tanks for alignment for now will be screwed together later so hopefully the tanks will be removable. I attached one cab side for checking bunker position.
The bunker sides have been attached to the rear. With these really old kits there were no rounded corners. But there is a way around it. If you solder rod on the inside of the corner and flood it with solder the outside can be shaped.
And all the bits rested together. A few bits to adjust but I reckon the next session will see the cab and bunker assembled onto the footplate.
Bit more later.
Back to the Scorpio multi pannier kit I bought, well I'm going to probably build an older 655 class from it, so I can use a few of the 57XX class parts on this. Plus there are lifting hooks and others parts that are duplicated.ehich will save a little fabrication.
This will not be a state of the art 57XX. But should be a good representation.
