We've made a fair bit of progress and need to show it somewhere.

After the steam chests we moved on to the cross head guides. Blackgates don't have a casting for the spindle guide so we machined them from a piece of 2 square bar, although they still need finishing.

Fitting parts to the horn plates and the front axle done.

A bit more progress.

We're glad people are interested as it seems to be a model that isn't common. It has been more work on the drawing side as there are some parts of the drawings we've just had to pick apart and redesign it from scratch, like the water pump arrangement, or just updating it like with the metric gears. We build these kind of things below and with what has happened over the past year we needed to look at trying something new, so after building and selling some Stuart engines we scaled up.

So many rivets. So many rivets.

Finally got all the bits together for the boiler. Getting 4 inch tube was an absolute nightmare.

Didn't think to ask one of the model suppliers. The fire tube material is coming from them so we should have asked about tube, although the only stuff I can see on there is 1/2" thick.