Another big step - soldering finished, now it's time for superglue !
No goes the smokebox door complete with it's nice brass dart. The casting, as usual, took a bit of flattening down on the rear face just to make sure it fitted properly. No whitmetal casting will sit perfectly without this, but a big file, some emery paper and a few seconds work are all that is required.
The chimney sits OK in it's newly drilled hole. The half-etched metal needed treating with care as it bend easily. The locating spigot was pretty chubby too - so fat that with the limited depth available I could get a reamer of suitable size in and had to revert to needle files. The gap filling properties of the glue tided up the slightly ragged bottom flange as much as required.
2mm plasticard wasn't quite thick enough for the dumb buffers but a couple of layers look about right. The same material provided the wooden backs to the beams.
This is one really detailed model. Inside the cab I've cobbled together enough to look OK. Again the castings are larger than I'd like but building a perfect representation would take a couple of days that I don't have and to be honest the improvement would be marginal and not worth it.
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