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been awhile. I'm finishing my reefer with decals but could not wait as my fingers been itching to start on a locomotive kit. So I started on a Arbour A3a 0-4-0t kit.
I should have started on the Locomotive Co 2-8-0 kit but I thought to start realively easy with the Arbour kit instead and do some training on it.
The Youtuber Darth Santa Fe has some videos on building the 0-4-0 with tender version which is a great help during the build.
I started by removing all the parts and immediately started on the chassie. The wheels where out of gauge so I had to press the axles out a little on both wheelsets.
The bearings where not wide enough and the chassie too wide at the axles so some filing had to be done. I also had to use a 1/8 drill to carefully drill out the slots to fit the axles. Not much was needed and hope I kept the slots parallell to each other. After the drilling I did some grinding using the end of the drillbit imagining preparing the bearing surfaces and making them smoother. Next will be using some very fine grinding compound as Autosol to get an even better surface.
Here are some photos of the work sofar.
The model when finished will be very nice. My aim is to find some photos of the original paint scheme which probably was quite elaborate with lining and lots of brass.
Happy modeling!
Håkan
been awhile. I'm finishing my reefer with decals but could not wait as my fingers been itching to start on a locomotive kit. So I started on a Arbour A3a 0-4-0t kit.
I should have started on the Locomotive Co 2-8-0 kit but I thought to start realively easy with the Arbour kit instead and do some training on it.
The Youtuber Darth Santa Fe has some videos on building the 0-4-0 with tender version which is a great help during the build.
I started by removing all the parts and immediately started on the chassie. The wheels where out of gauge so I had to press the axles out a little on both wheelsets.
The bearings where not wide enough and the chassie too wide at the axles so some filing had to be done. I also had to use a 1/8 drill to carefully drill out the slots to fit the axles. Not much was needed and hope I kept the slots parallell to each other. After the drilling I did some grinding using the end of the drillbit imagining preparing the bearing surfaces and making them smoother. Next will be using some very fine grinding compound as Autosol to get an even better surface.
Here are some photos of the work sofar.
The model when finished will be very nice. My aim is to find some photos of the original paint scheme which probably was quite elaborate with lining and lots of brass.
Happy modeling!
Håkan
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