| Hi Richard.
thank you.
I must admit I just dont like spray, it never seems to give good coverage and a lot of times seems to send a lot of paint to the bench. Brushing is a little longer winded but if you rub between coats it gives a deeper richer look to the surface. Ah the bow pen! how many drawings are floating around with blots from those things! i still have all my drawing tools including about a dozen bows. For putting coach lines on its the tool of choice. It lets the line form with out a sharp raised edge unlike masked lines
I added a few pictures from the build to the photo bucket account. ill find a few more as the week goes on.
the T rings are not as most aluminum castings, on this one I grabbed two MS billets and treppaned the front T's from the inside of the rear T's. It took about three hours to trappan both billets, and about four weeks to cut the spokes and strakes. Each wheel has about 100 1/16th iron and copper rivetts.
The cylinder block is GM with a CI linner. The steam way was enlarged from the drawing to give a better flow and the safety valves were improved to give a 30% margin of steam flow.
The next one is a fowler Superba times two. and ill try to document the build as I go. My plan is to have it them steam by about 2011 and finnished about a year after that. the boiler's will be steel on these one's partly due to the winch under the boiler and partly due to the working pressure.
I also plan to build a plough to go with the two engines.
To be honest making two engines the same is not a lot more work as all the jigs and fixtures are ready made from the firts part.
kevin |