He was smarter than me and realised that if he soldered the whole body together it would be impossible to insert the firebox casting.
The resin copy I made of the white metal chassis block has undergone a lot of filing at the bottom to sit lower inside the cab - on the Langley kits it rises too high into the cab to accommodate the motor.
What I’m wondering now is whether I was wrong to fatten it out with a thick wedge of styrene in between the two halves?
Rob, test would be to find an engineman lurking in the virtual mess room and see how they fit- it is tight and if it looks to be a squeeze then leave as it is.
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