They also have a bobbly surface!
Trick of the light, I suspect.
Not happy with the spring housing for the pony truck. It’s got a flat bottom, but it needs a curve to the rear edge to sit on the footplate. I think that’ll be a different casting. There are three in the kit, but unfortunately…. A doddle in 3DP, whilst possible, not something that would be easy to make in metal.
What I wanted to do this afternoon was to fit the diagonal bar braces. Can’t find the pads for the footplate. No obvious castings, I’ll need to look to see if I already cut out some etched parts or they need making.
Photos are very useful.
Safety valve bonnet is now sitting down, it might need a little more fettling but seems to be there, it’s a nice tight fit. Chimney is soldered on, as is smokebox door and handles. Looking at it in the photo above, I think the door sticks out too far, so that’ll be coming off for further adjustment. Happily, I haven’t done the hinges yet.
Need to look at the back corner of the paddle box splasher again.
And the pony truck does not align with the spring. I’m sure the spring housing is in the right place, so presumably the pony truck pivot isn’t.
still a few steps fore and aft, but a bit of progress.
