Regular readers of EIM will know that my son, Matthew, and I are (very slowly) making a GWR Manor class 4-6-0 in 5-inch gauge, although we do keep getting distracted by other, 'more urgent' projects (can any model engineering project ever be classified as 'urgent'?). Most of our work to date has concentrated on the tender - we received some sage advice that embarking on the tender first has two big advantages: 1) Mistakes made on the tender are either (a) less noticeable than those made on the loco (most people look closely at the loco, with the tender being 'taken as read' in comparison) or (b) less important from a functional perspective and/or (c) easier to rectify 2) Once a completed, working, loco is available, the temptation is to play with it and not get on with the laborious task of making a tender, from scratch.
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