Flying Scotsman
The next step was to get a little paint onto the parts made to date, as far as the body was concerned this just involved primer and a little satin black, the chassis was painted and lined but this was a little later. First all the bits and pieces had
Flying Scotsman
Next on the list (it's a very long exhaustive list) was to do the doors for the tender, in this case the doors that connect to the cab doors when the locomotive is in service. These are not covered in Don's drawings and thus I did
Flying Scotsman
The beading is an interesting subject, I have seen a number of ways of doing this from others. In this case I have used some of those ideas and also my own but at the end of the day, there's many ways to skin a cat. I did
Flying Scotsman
Well today we have the lamp irons... Pic96 First I cut some suitable brass to length and then bent it 90' followed by a lot of filing to shape, this gave me the bottom part of the lamp iron. Next I silver soldered a suitable piece of brass as
Flying Scotsman
I did a little research on the tank filler lid, Don's drawing is different to the photos that I have which show a much smaller diameter lid than Don's. Also the drawings show a straight cut to separate the two parts of the lid whereas the
Flying Scotsman
I then directed my attention to the stiffeners that give internal support to the tender sides. I have deviated from Don's instructions as they seem to be just for show rather than prototypical. Don had instructed to add some 3/16x1/16 brass strip held on by 4
Flying Scotsman
I then tackled the two locker doors,which were nicely laser cut. The hinges were fabricated with strips of brass that had copper tube soldered to them ready to be cut up for making into individual hinges. One piece is the same thickness as the doors with the tube soldered
Flying Scotsman
There is a lot of detail on this model, much is covered in Don's drawings but there is also what I'd call 'super detail' which I have added. It's not possible to cover all of this in one section and thus this
Flying Scotsman
These are large pieces of brass and care needs to be taken when forming them as any buckle or deformation will show up very easily on a flat panel of this size. The time consuming part of sawing/filing, I don't need to worry about as they are
Flying Scotsman
Don suggested fabricating the water filler tube using copper tube, I had none of the correct size, I did however have some brass billet, a bit wasteful perhaps but at least I could get on with it. With the billet held in the 3 jaw, i faced off and then
Flying Scotsman
The coal door has a T piece stiffener that needs to be fabricated before the front panel can be soldered up. As I said previously Malcolm's work is superb however a word of warning for anyone who also builds this kit, the coal door area has a small
Flying Scotsman
There's a lot of internal sections to this tender which adds greatly to it's strength. Don states that the tender design is capable of supporting a driver sitting astride it for ground level operation. You would, of course, need to take this into consideration when making