Bull Bars

It can be the little details which really make a model and one of the things I like most about our Fairlies are the bars at the front of the bogies which Himself adds on.

These are the thing that instantly differentiate the modern Fairlie from days gone by.

I call them bull bars because they remind me of the bling which people put on the front of their cars to make them look more rugged.

Himself tells me these are quite tricky to fit.

Not only do you have to get them sitting level and equally spaced, but over do it with the soldering iron and you could have bits falling off, or in the worst case scenario, the plastic gears on the front axle (which are not a million miles away) could deform.

Fortunately this has never happened on any of the nine bogies he’s made.