Dapol Evening Star

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Another Train hits the tracks, if I ever finish it
First up is a few pics of my abandoned city of Turo which I started a year or so ago.

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Now the one I'm doing for the comp,

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[Mark]

I see the flash monster has left its mark

I'm looking forward to this build too. The Evening Star is a great looking loco.

[royjess]

A great choice there #1. I hope you have better luck with the Evening Star than your City of Truro. I look forward to seeing what you do with this.

I see the flash monster has left its mark

I'm looking forward to this build too. The Evening Star is a great looking loco.

Yes plenty of sanding required to kill the flash monster with these kits

[Jesscheekylee]

Your City of Truro is looking great, what went wrong with it because it was looking good?


The Evening Star is a really good choice, I'm looking forward seeing this build.

Jess

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Thought its about time I did an update.
The only mod I'm doing is to replace the moulded on handrail on the boiler


once it was gone I drilled some small holes for the new handrail "brackets" (for want of a better word)



Brackets from some jewelry wire

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Some of the wheels filled and sanded

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Drivers footplate? not sure of the technical names

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I used Humbrol metalcote 27003 for the first time on the wheels where they would be in contact with the rails.

before buffing



after buffing



I think it turned out pretty good

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Here's as far as I am at the moment.





In hindsight I should have used satin black instead of matt black which marks easily, so once its all finished I will give it a coat of satin varnish

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Coming along nicely, those wheels look's like metal

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last minute update

boiler painted


footplate dry brushed to bring out detail


Tender painted and end glued, taped in position




Boiler and chassis joined




front bogie fitted


close up of connecting rods

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inside of cab, a lot more detail could be added here if one wished.


should of posted this pic earlier, its the bottom of the boiler


some brass paint added




Front buffer plate, please note holes for buffers are out of line, to get round this problem I just drilled them out over size to give a bit of room to Aline the buffers



slowly coming together

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rear of tender


decals added








The decals on the tender were very hard to get straight, this is the best I could do

[royjess]

It's certainly full steam ahead with this build It's really coming along nicely.

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Now complete with florist wire handrails





Thats it for the competition, I will probably mount it on a track in the future, thanks for looking in

[royjess]

Great use of the florist wire, a lovely model there, well done

[casper]

Super job on your loco mate
some very good entries this year, good luck

[Chadders87]

The loco looks really good number1. The florists wire was a clever touch, and the buffed humbrol looks spot on! 2 new tips I have learned today