3mm - Furness K2

PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONThis is a body of a 3mm scale model of a Furness Railway K2 Locomotive, more accurately known as the 21 Class.   It has been re-scaled and re-designed in a few areas from the 4mm version and has been designed specifically to fit 14.2mm gauge wheels only. 
For a different body that will fit a lesser gauge please enquire.

 
BODY INSTRUCTIONS: You will have to make a Reverser Rod from some thin plastic or metal strip and add it to the post sticking out from the left side in front of the front splasher and joined to the hole in the cab front.

You'll need to make a pipe to go along the boiler length. Some 0.7mm rod made from plastic, brass or nickel silver with a small split pin as a handrail pillar situated roughly halfway along the boiler, above the handrail pillar hole that is above the main splasher.

The rear of this pipe needs to be bent slightly into a reverse curve before it reaches the front of the cab sheet. Please refer to prototype photographs for more.

Hand rail pillars and 0.3mm brass or nickel silver rod are also recomended here.

At the rear of the cab are 'cab beading' protrusions that need some 0.3mm metal rod or similar adding downwards for a handrail.

You will find the smokebox door sprued in front of its housing.

Similarly the guard irons are located under the running plate at the front on sprue. Cut these off the main sprue then cut the remainder in half and file back to the desired thickness and add them to the front of the buffer beam at the distance dictated by your chosen wheel gauge.