Saturday, 2 March 2019

Varnishing Act

Himself is starting on the rather involved process of giving Garratt 143 a coat of varnish.


As you can see, the model has to be broken down into its many sub-assemblies for this.

In the picture above are the footplates and buffer beams of the two power units along with the cab roof and the (genuine) coal insert for the rear bunker.

Out of shot are the two bunker bodies and the main frame / boiler / cab unit which are yet to go under the airbrush.

The chassis are brushed by hand to avoid gumming up any of the mechanism.

Not long to go now, I hope...

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