oldravendale
Western Thunderer
Many thanks for your comments. As you doubtless realise, my "K" is in 7mm and I have no knowledge about the availability of a kit in 4mm. I'm rather surprised there is no RTR 4mm version actually.
Painting is proceeding. The paint run on the tender is now rubbed down again and I'll try to spray it again today. The loco itself is pretty well finished - buffer beams and cab interior still to paint but that's all. I'm really not happy about the quality of my lining though. It's much less satisfactory than previous hand lined jobs I've done which I can really only put down to shaky hands. In short the paint job will look OK, but will not be my finest hour.
I've been through my drawings and have to say that I'm finding it difficult to read off the lengths of the coupling or con rods. Fortunately this was one area in the kit where the axle holes match the coupling rods, and the con rod to cylinder measurement works, so I've not tried to re-engineer that area at all.
Brian
Painting is proceeding. The paint run on the tender is now rubbed down again and I'll try to spray it again today. The loco itself is pretty well finished - buffer beams and cab interior still to paint but that's all. I'm really not happy about the quality of my lining though. It's much less satisfactory than previous hand lined jobs I've done which I can really only put down to shaky hands. In short the paint job will look OK, but will not be my finest hour.
I've been through my drawings and have to say that I'm finding it difficult to read off the lengths of the coupling or con rods. Fortunately this was one area in the kit where the axle holes match the coupling rods, and the con rod to cylinder measurement works, so I've not tried to re-engineer that area at all.
Brian