This is the most recent part of the improvement package I’m doing on the Bachmann Standard Class 5, and as this covers the improvements made to the front bogie wheels and the chimney, sort of comes under the #fef banner!

Most of the components used here are from the Alan Gibson range.

Good quality replacement parts always make these sort of tasks easier and quicker, as do good tools. The above work not taking much more than an hour, makes these improvements a viable set of small changes, that can be done sequentially. Next steps will be changing the smokebox door detailing and AWS boxes which will follow in a similar format.

These techniques in the video aren’t of course unique in their application to the Standard Class 5, the work on the 4575 prairie above used very similar techniques and components.