Body Work on the F3 Diesel

The cab mostly done, the body work is now started on the F3

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Words from Barry on progress:

Pictures of the casting masters for the F3 engine I am building. It took two days, just to get all the rivets on the sides! I still need to make masters

for the tanks and battery boxes, but I want to get the main body assembled together first, so that I can see just how big they need to be.  I will

splice two sides together to make the sides for the B unit, as well as the roof will be two parts. Dennis Mashburn made some tire castings for me,

that you see in one of the pictures. I am planning on making a mold that I can drop the tire into and then fill it with urethane, to make the wheel

contour and insulate it from the axle. I will center drill the wheel in the lath, and press it on to a knurled axle. Once I get the body castings made

and assembled into an A unit body, I will update you again. Enough slacking, back to work...