The waiting is over

If you remember the last time Mini-Me-Wagon was here here we said "now we wait......"

Well the waiting is over. Pretty good turn around really for this time of year

Here is the etch, brought to you by Mini-Me-Wagons and Two Foot Models

We have some issues still to work out firstly the detail of the hole through the bottom of the W iron made the fold too weak and it bends in the wrong place which makes it damn hard to fold and line up the bearing holes with ease and one of them broke free during folding

The Etch

At the local support group tonight the first folding was finished with a touch of solder on each of the axle boxes and the brake lever we have a rather respectable model.

It was noted by 0-4-4-0T that the detail looks finer than that of the Peco underframes

Folded up - pay attention to the nutter detailed rivets on the W irons

One of the supporters wants to do one with a true to scale axle length of 12.25mm over the pin points (2mm Association standard) which maybe possible

Another shot of the folded underframe

One the early J5 bodies on top has revealed another issue, it looks like the chassis is a bit over length

This maybe the fold lines adding length so another correction and another prototype to go

Under one of the Batch Built J bodies

A very nice model - if a little challenging to fold

Stay tuned for more on this project