ON MY WORKBENCH.

Another week of confinement to quarters, another week of wet and chilly conditions precluding much yardwork, or even getting some sun reading on the deck.  But the model building projects continue.  It's mostly getting the detail bits right, one component at a time, on the Hawksworth County.

The British style etched brass chassis and footplate construction capture the thickness of the metalwork more accurately than does that North American old-school milled brass bar chassis behind.  Look closely, the cylinder castings are themselves built up from milled brass stock.

Those are two of the roughest-riding Ten Wheelers (sorry, British enthusiasts, that's the way I roll) in railroading, the County which was kind of a war emergency design, and the Pennsylvania G5s, the world's champion for tractive effort among 4-6-0s of any kind.

The Russian Decapod received a little more attention during the week as well.  Look, though, how big that G5 boiler is.  That ought to give people an idea just how big The Pennsylvania Railroad's Decapods were.

Keep calm and keep modelling.