As expected, this build is moving along at a glacial pace. I am finding it hard to keep up my concentration and will power on this - it's sucking the modelling mojo from me. I knew when I started this, it would be a massive under taking, but I didn't really grasp exactly how much work was needed.
Oh well, I can't say I wasn't warned by the many various threads I have seen of this. I will see it through to the end - I'm just having a bitch about it.
As for progress, well, it's coming along slowly. I am still waiting for the hex rod to turn up, but Ii have no idea when that'll be, and I really want to keep on with the frame.
So instead, I have turned my attention to the boiler. It's all put together as such - minus a few things, but they'll come later. I'm working on the small things at present - mostly the sand line taps. My reference pics show wires going from the front round the sides to the back. These taps are very small, but it's do-able. I still have to attach the tap handles, but again, that's a thing to add once I have these wires sorted out. I'm also not sure how I am going to attach those vinyl lines to the actual taps, so I have drilled out the bottoms and will insert small lengths of wire into the tops of the lines in a hope to be able to attach them that way. We'll see how that works out later!!
OK, pic time:
First up, the sand taps:
And some of the boiler work. As you can see, I've added the PE parts and the resin safety valves but not a lot else. Sorry about that....
if it looks like a train and sounds like a train - then it's a train:
I am not going to use the whistle provided in the LZ set as it is way over scaled for this kit and doesn't even look like the whistle of a BR52! Speaking of which, I am really not sure about quite a bit of the stuff provided - not only does
some of it seem very over sized but some of it seems incomplete or the wrong way around. The rest of it is fine and useable, but a fair bit of it isn't. Such is life.
Anyway, I will try to make the next update more interesting. It's the small things that really consume your time.
Thanks for stopping in
MH