Returning to the project after a few days the bunker assembly has been attached to the rear of the main part of the loco:

Apologies for the tape over the cab roof, have not yet looked at that bit yet!!

The rear tender buffer beam from the donor Q1 loco has been cut off and added to the rear of the bunker replacing the GBL 4MT Standard one for more commonality (plus it has sprung buffers already fitted of course).

Also added all be it with double sided tape temporarily are some side paneling below footplate level. These are simply strips of black plasticard (the extremely useful sheets of black plastic that Fox Transfers post with their products as straighteners, some of the most useful packaging supplies I have ever encountered!!!) cut to length and them an angle introduced at the leading edge.

Some steps of some kind - a slot most likely - will be cut into these panels (hence their only temporary attachment for the moment)

That is it for the moment however, I am away for a week and a half now during which no doubt I will suddenly be struck by another hair brained idea, or decided to model the Scottish Highlands instead!!!