After another short break, we are on the home (ish ) straight.. Sorting out and understanding the pipework. The multiple lubricator pipes pass up and into the cladding leaving two pipes that run along the bottom edge of the casing. They are sometimes tatty, sometimes not, one dips down with some sort of drain aft of the slidebars. the inner one is wiggles around but that cannot be seen from a normal viewpount. The steam heating pipe comes to a union under the drivers side, then changes size as it is often lagged. As Mick D found, the truck was sitting too low, that might need a little more fettling. The front sanding hatch has been filled. The screws for the brake hangers come from the inside, as I don't like visible screw heads. There will be some fiddling to ensure that on final assembly. I've sprayed the backs of and behind the deflectors black as I couldn't figure a way of making them removable.
Broadside view, I did try to make the pipe unions for the lubrication feeds, but failed to make 40 consistently. I think if you can't make consistent and good detail, leave it off.. Forward brake hanger has the screwhead showing as I forgot to fit it before the motor... that's going to be interesting putting them from the inside. The drawbar pin is a screw that goes in from underneath... simples.. Final body detail next, backhead and track test...
