Billy Body - Stage 1

With the chassis and boiler put to one side, I made a start on the body using the Roundhouse Body Kit (HBK5).

I started with the cab floor, folding the brass into shape according to the instructions. As eventually I intend to fit radio control to this model, a bracket was bent and fitted to the cab floor via two tags, slotted through the floor and then soft soldered.

The brass cab floor was then rubbed down and cleaned with Isopropanol before being primed with etch primer, grey primer and then four coats of Halfords black gloss enamel paint.

Next stage, the fitting of additional boiler bands and the cab floor.