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Body and soul
Having read George Dent’s article on the building of a 3D-printed Stanier 0-4-4T (MR295), I wondered if you might like to see the results when I modified and built the same body kit last year. The basic 3D model is accurate to scale, and parts such as the bunker coal rails are excellent but there are some details that are wrong. The shape of the smokebox door is too flat and the top lamp bracket is in the wrong position. The tank fillers should be at the front of the water tanks and the boiler bands are way too thick. The cab roof vent should be a sliding cover, not the MR push-up cover as modelled. Added to this, there is an awful amount of rivet detail missing from the tanks, bunker, cab roof and smokebox.