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Thanks to all, The tool box is based on the large Gerstner pattern. It is Victorian Mountain Ash (actually a tall straight eucalypt) with Karrie handles (from Western Aust - scrap from my brother's front fence) The drawer fronts were a piece of birdseye that my timber supplier discovered while...

Lurking on my Son's Account again. Now I have solved pictures, This was my second engine and first scratch built. It came from Best of Model engineering vol1. The biggest learning curve was dealing with all of the really silly errors on the plans. It looks like they were originally scaled for an...

Hi, Haven't had time to do anything for a while, but though I would see if I can get phots on this site squared away. Not sure if anyone finds this useful for as reference for building scale, but here are a couple of Photos I took over the weekend of a pretty complete example of the type of...

Hi, I'm just starting this myself and bought Harris and Parts 2&3 of the AMSC codes. Part 2 contains a lot of stuff I found useful when trying to work in the fitting locations, such as the sizes for various bushes and the min web in the tube plate. Given that harris is pretty thin on detail in...

All, Loggin in on my son's account (thats the one on the home PC) so thanks for the prompt replys. Actually, I'm in Canberra. Have visited running days both here and in Melb - good welcome within the limits of a busy day - and when I finish my current posting hope to get engaged. I am very...