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<\/a><\/p>\nUnlike the prototype boiler I showed you in the earlier update, the final boiler in the kit will include the jacket’s thickness. The picture of the backhead shows some cutouts for the valves and hardware.<\/p>\n Details like intricate moldings around the domes and headlight panel beveling are exact to the engine plan, and of course the real engine. Note that although I designed the eagle for the top of the sand dome, it turned out to be too small (thin) for the machine to reproduce. So, the elusive eagle got away again!<\/p>\n Check out the bolt heads on the smokebox front, and the riveting detail on the smokestack! For the kit, I redesigned the stack’s wall to be thicker than the real engine’s (the real stack is made of sheet metal) to give the part some structural integrity. As a result, the stack’s opening at the top looks a bit narrower than the real engine would. <\/p>\n Here are some of the very small parts, the lifting shaft and one of the links and its block. And checkout with webbing on the inside of the pilot wheel.<\/p>\n And finally, here’s the boiler with the domes and the stack dry fitted. It’s looking like a train!<\/p>\n Yea I know, how many “first looks” can there be? In this update, most of the “recognizably steam-locomotive-ish” parts came in. Here’s the spread–and it may not look like it, but there are nearly 60 parts in this picture. Unlike … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"