Airfix brake 2

It was was some trepidation that work began. I settled myself with the attitude that this was pence spent so no problem if it were to be abandoned halfway through and jumped on; or recycled back into Coke bottles.

The floor was raised at one end by 2-3mm. I bent this back as best I could. I'm not a lover of under-floor ribbing on kits, but in this case it looked like I needed it. One end was welded to the bent end and then I worked my way along and plonked a 3K weight on it while it hardened.

Satisfied with this I moved onto the solebars. As with the 16 tonner 2mm holes were drilled and bearings added. Did I mention that if they were thrown that they would probably come back? I fear this will be a recurring theme to the build. Again one end welded, and as per the floor sans weight. You can clearly see the 2mm differential at the RH end pre-sticking.

 A long time ago I built (or didn't) a kit of the QE2. The hull sides were 1/4" different in length. So it was here with sole bars. One was fixed and the second waggled around until I got the axles almost parallel. It runs... but won't win any prizes. So far, so... well just so far really.