Update: New photo of painted backhead – scroll down. I’ve always loved to add as many of the details of the prototype to my models as I can. When I built my North Yard A, I scratchbuilt as much of the gubbins onto the whitemetal backhead as I could. The NZFinescale Baldwins featured etchings and…
As foreshadowed in the last post, I was struggling with the temptation to do a horse, and like Mark Twain proved unable to resist it. There’s not too much to say about it really other than to remember that it is less than 25mm at the shoulder, so the paint job looks better at less…
Here’s a little diversion, prompted by an email from Mark Andrews of Marks Model Works asking ‘Can you print this?’ My initial reaction was ‘No’ but after having a closer look I was thinking ‘Maybe’ and sure enough it turned out OK. The shafts on the model are 0.6 mm square maximum, so this is…
