Friday, February 1, 2008

Manning Wardle K class footplate and bunker


I had been putting this off because I knew the splashers would be hard to do, and also expected trouble with the flared top on the bunker.

The first job with the splashers is to bend up the splasher faces connected to the footplate with a half-etched fold line. I started from what I thought was the back to get some practice in... turns out that was the front. As usual by the time I did the last couple I'd got the hang of it. The trick is to score along the half-etch fold lines a number of times until you can just see a mark coming through, at which point these small parts will be easy to bend up without damaging them.