Merchant Navy in 7.25" project

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I do tend to put updates on FB, and of course on that platform it's very much easier to just upload photos. So Canadian Pacific is coming on apace still, priority moved a bit from the running chassis to the boiler cladding so that Martyn can take the parts back to Switzerland with him when he next visits, as he has much better painting facilities over there than I do and the boiler paint job has to be very good of course. The chassis is now in its custom rotisserie, so the completed and "6thed" wheelsets are in and a check with some false rods shows the offsets are all the same and rolling without tight spots, so they will come out and get pinned. I'll try to post some pics below:

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I found drawing the cladding support crinolenes very time consuming. As you'll notice, the actual boiler has a flat throatplate, so the latticework has to support a formed throatplate cladding piece to give it that distinctive, and very pleasing, compound curved throatplate.

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Sadly I can no longer find the Instagram link to embed in a post here, so you'll have to use your imagination