One of my hobbies is building model trains. I have been posting the progress of my different models to a Yahoo group for Australian modellers (or is it for people who model Australian trains?) so thought I may as well change over to publishing progess in the form of a blog.
The current project is a Manning-Wardle 0-6-0 tank locomotive, being built from a Slaters kit that has extra parts and rewritten instructions supplied by a Sydney firm called Prototype Model Engineering (PME).
PME specialise in high quality/detail kits and parts, are a local reseller of Slaters products, and also sell modelling tools. Unfortunately they do not have a web site at the time of writing.
Any posts in this series will be given the label "mwk". Model railway related posts in general will be given the label "model railways".
I'll go into more detail on various sub-assemblies in other posts, but to give an overview of progress so far I nearly have a rolling chassis, and the footplate and splashers (wheel covers) are done.
The next steps are to get a freely rolling chassis, then add the pickups so it can be tested with a motor, and to modify the leaf spring castings as described in PME's instructions and fit them.
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