The painting started last night, first was a light coating of etch primer to the metal parts. I decided to paint the chassis also.
I was going to metal black the roof plate lifting hooks and stick them on later, but recently saw a photo that showed them in the same colour as the body, so I stuck them on and primed them to.
The bogie sides were 70deg soldered to the brass motor out-riggers, thinning the brass with 180deg solder first.
Some of the sides detail going on- brake pull rods and a bit of over frame piping, I'll hold off on the ladders until the body and chassis are out of the paintshop just to get the alignment right!
The front of the bogies is looking a bit crude so I have worked up a drawing to do a front crossframe and revised wheel guards, the guards cast on the bogie frames are way out from the track.....
Eoin