Thursday 3 November 2011

Fitting Out

Front fittings on the Decauville 042T
Since its outing to ExpoNG last weekend, the Weidknecht Decauville has acquired its smokebox door fittings and cylinder appendages. I thought I'd lost the lamp bracket, which is one of the problems about painting something dark brown over all: what once was shiny brass disappeared into the background.

The next thing to do is to fit the brake gear and vacuum pipes, and this brings the whole enterprise nearly to an end. It will be nice to have not only a complete engine but one that is in its finished colours. Probably the longest bit of work remaining is attaching John's couplings (Zamzoodled) which means that I'll probably soon be returning to my 4-wheel toastrack carriage so that they match.