I decided to start with the 222 mud guards as they are quite simple joints and given my clumsy driving, I'd probably end up bashing them sooner or later. The idea is that soldering all the joints should give them more rigidity and the ability to survive knocks, rather than just filling them with epoxy to cover the joints.
This was my first attempt - I was applying the solder from the other side so hadn't realised how much had pooled on the outside.
But even that cleaned up quite nicely.
I was a lot more sparing with the solder on the other joints and so they won't require as much filing as this one.
It's very satisfying to see the silver solder wick up a well prepared joint, especially when it leaves the minimum amount of clean up.
Whilst these parts aren't even close to the standard of some of the builds shown on here, I'm quite pleased with them as a first attempt and I hope they show that these sorts of techniques are within the capabilities of even the most ham-fisted of modellers
Adrian.
