Taking good pictures

I am out of the shop today. Over the Christmas holidays I was showing some pictures of my work to a young man who knows something about photography. He recommended that I make a soft box for lighting. For example, here is a picture of the windmill I made and it doesn't really do the subject justice. So I am going start making a soft box.

I added the cow catcher today. It was a bit of a challenge soldering each piece in place without disturbing the other pieces.

side view of cow catcher

front view. It is starting to look like a locomotive now

Today I made drive cylinders and mounted them on the front wheel assembly

Drive cylinder in place. After doing this I realized that locomotive body is too small.

I had a larger piece of pipe so I tried it an I like it

Front view with larger tube

working on front wheel assembly

I worked more on the front wheel assembly today. I added the mount to the body and I am starting to work on the drive cylinders.

Front wheels in place. I will add the drive cylinders before connecting the wheel assembly to the body.

Added drive cylinder mount and starting work on the cylinders.

Making the front wheels

I made the front wheel mount and front wheels today

A rough view of the front wheels in position

Rear wheel mount

I made the rear wheel mount bracket today

Cut out of a copper sheet and formed to shape

New bracket mounted to locomotive body. I also added axles and spacers

Here is how it looks with the wheels in place

Adding counterweight

Now I have four finished rear wheels. Now it's time to add the counterweights to the wheel.

Carefully cut the counterweight piece out of copper.

Here is what the wheels look like after adding counterweight pieces and trimming the edges.