Hall Chassis Progress

 The final job on the body, before turning to the chassis, was the cab roof.

The first job on the chassis was the bogie. I was off to a flying start with a spare P4 part from a Martin Finney kit: Part 18, the fold-up etching for the basic frame. The remaining dozen parts used measurements of the Finney frame to supplement the few bogie measurements I did have. I incorporated my usual style of side control springing acting at axle level on the 3/32" brass tube mounting pillar.

Toynbee Hall now has a chassis with spacers temporarily soldered one side only, loosely assembled with jig axles, a trial cylinder assembly from a set of  Kemilway parts I bought in 1985 through the Scalefour Society, and a painted bogie with jury axles. I made up a cross-frame slidebar bracket from spare Finney Parts 39 laminated around a central core at the appropriate spacing. And to help with the illusion, I fettled the smokebox door rescued from my old Triang Albert Hall bought in 1967/8, added a nickel door dart and a front number plate for 5961.

Hall Boiler Progress

At long last I sourced a sheet of 8 thou nickel silver (thanks for the recommendation, Frank) allowing me to continue with Toynbee Hall’s taper boiler – see post of 4^th October, 2020. I also found it so much easier to in-fill the cut-out in the cab front rather than make a new item, and the Finney chimney certainly helps the look of the model.

The boiler and firebox bolt together, and the boiler is a push fit onto the extended smokebox inner. The complete boiler unit sits on the saddle at one end, bolted to the smokebox, and is bolted to the cab front at the other end. I finished this stage of the work by preparing a nickel blank for the cab roof, then put the project to one side to take a break.