oldravendale
Western Thunderer
Thanks for three really helpful comments.
Heather,
Looks like I've found out the error of my ways the hard way! I'll have another look at the Wild Swan book - in fact both of them - but my initial shuffle through them didn't find me any tender drawings. However (see Len's comment), by comparison of Black 5 and Royal Scot photos it should be possible to establish the principle.
Steph - Yes, I fully understand the need to match loco and tender footplates. However, I have to start building the loco somewhere, and this is essentially "etch 1". It'll be my starter as I begin to build the loco up.
Len - that's useful. I have at least one of the Black 5 books and certainly the Wild Swan Royal Scot book. I'll review the Black 5 book but I took the view early on that it's not possible to rely on it as far as the tenders are concerned as the Royal Scot tenders were different to the "norm" in a few fundamental ways.
Some excellent nuggets there, so thank you all.
Brian
Heather,
Looks like I've found out the error of my ways the hard way! I'll have another look at the Wild Swan book - in fact both of them - but my initial shuffle through them didn't find me any tender drawings. However (see Len's comment), by comparison of Black 5 and Royal Scot photos it should be possible to establish the principle.
Steph - Yes, I fully understand the need to match loco and tender footplates. However, I have to start building the loco somewhere, and this is essentially "etch 1". It'll be my starter as I begin to build the loco up.
Len - that's useful. I have at least one of the Black 5 books and certainly the Wild Swan Royal Scot book. I'll review the Black 5 book but I took the view early on that it's not possible to rely on it as far as the tenders are concerned as the Royal Scot tenders were different to the "norm" in a few fundamental ways.
Some excellent nuggets there, so thank you all.
Brian