{"id":4011,"date":"2024-08-14T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T22:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2024-08-14T15:49:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T22:49:31","slug":"sw-8-nearly-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"SW-8 Nearly Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">I&#8217;ve had these photos for a few weeks now. This engine, built from an etched brass kit, is essentially done except for weights. It did come out well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-front.jpg?resize=640%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-front.jpg?resize=1024%2C615&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-front.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-front.jpg?resize=768%2C462&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-front.jpg?resize=1536%2C923&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-front.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-front.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It runs well with the modified Athearn drive components! Just won&#8217;t pull very much, as it badly needs extra weights. When it is a little cooler I&#8217;ll work that out more in the garage shop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I opted for my slightly more &#8220;modern&#8221; Orient scheme which would theoretically be more of a 1960s scheme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This build took a while! But pleased with the results. <a href=\"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=3614\" title=\"\"><strong>The series starts here.<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-rear.jpg?resize=640%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-rear.jpg?resize=1024%2C651&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-rear.jpg?resize=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-rear.jpg?resize=768%2C488&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-rear.jpg?resize=1536%2C977&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-rear.jpg?w=1771&amp;ssl=1 1771w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-rear.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had these photos for a few weeks now. This engine, built from an etched brass kit, is essentially done except for weights. It did<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worsley-works"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SW-8-rear.jpg?fit=1771%2C1126&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}