Recently I decided to take on another project. Alan (of TheGalLine) had started a Fairlie Project for a client but got too busy to complete it; so I volunteered to finish it. It’s sort of like building a kit, but no instructions. I was shipped a bunch of parts and a couple of Stainz drive blocks. A lot of the parts were not only laser cut, but already assembled. Here you see the cab, boilers and tanks.
Alan had also designed, cut, and assembled a frame to hold the drive blocks.
So, the first order of business was to make sure the drive blocks could be attached to the frame. He sent me some bushings; I just mounted them under some styrene plates that I screwed to the motor blocks.
The cab was mostly assembled.
I added some laser cut “trim”.
I decided that I’d assemble the locomotive parts with screws, rather than glue. First I screwed the cab in place. This is a shot of the underside of the frame.
Then, I put in some backing plates in each of the tanks so I could screw them in place.
They have some sort of cylinder on the front of each water tank. Could be air. I used some styrene cylinders to represent these. They are held in place with brass rod.
A few caps from Plastruct and finished off with some more tubing and an escutcheon pin.
Finally, I used two screws at the base of each tank, and one through the cab wall to mount the tanks in place.
