Another rather slow day on the Hunslet front I am afraid. Have just done some more filing and sanding of a couple of bits such as the motion bracket and cylinder block to coax them into their proper places. Fitted the brass handrails and worked on the speaker installation. My plan is to fit one speaker into each side tank although I shall only wire one with the other being a spare as they will be pretty hard to get at once the boiler is in. Hopefully I will be able o get the decoder into the boiler but a bit held up by lack of gearbox now. Have been able to slot the boiler and smoke box into place now and is starting to look like a loco now. There is a lot of detail work to do though and I know from the previous one that this is quite time consuming and some of it is best done before final assembly.

Will try not to get distracted by the body tomorrow and get back to sorting the front bogie compensation out - a nice challenge for a Friday!