I've been working on the machinery for the foundry and other internal details. I plan to add led fire to both heat sources.
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| The smithing hearth. Once glued together, needing four hands, I wrapped styrene re-inforcing bands around the chimney and painted with red primer. The coal pile has been drilled to allow red light through. |
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| I painted the bricks to represent blue engineering brick, the picture is a bit vague. |
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| I made two crucibles for the furnace from the rounded ends of some thick sprue. I hollowed them out. One is fitted with a handle, the other is a "spare". |
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| Painted and suitably clagged up with slag (Bi-carb) |
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| Hearth and the start of a steamhammer from plastic scraps. |
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| Steamhammer nearing completion. |
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| A tiny hook to carry the crucible to the furnace. |
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| The interior - so far. |
Board and batten siding
A neighbour who sculpts wargaming figures gave me a load of Evergreen styrene shapes recently and luckily there were some 1/2mm strips just the right size for the battens. Fitting them retrospectively was tedious and fiddly but worth the end result.
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| The detrained loco will provide steam to power the foundry machines. |
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| Through the looking glass. |
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