The curve in the roof is not too severe so it has been fairly easy to bend to shape and fashion a removeable set up......

The prototype has wooden buffers sandwiched between steel buffer plates. The kit supplies 20thou plasticard. I would have liked wood but didn`t have anything suitable to hand, so added extra thickness to mine and used my favourite `Gorrilla` to assemble it all....... I hope it is robust enough. I then used 100deg low melt to solder the rear plate to the chassis.

I also did a bit of extra work on that Deeley door by beefing up the hinge detail.

I made a bit of a `pigs ear` out of the rear coal rails due to the thickness of the etch, but I managed to get a square job done in the end.......

The kit comes with a decent motor and gearbox. Panic set in as it seemed at first to be too tall for the application as Slaters often seem to upgrade and change their motor/gearbox production.

So it was time for a dry run and one thing was blindingly obvious and that was that thick boiler casting needed a chunk removing........... thank goodness for carborundum discs !!!!!!

Panic over as chassis and body make a well balanced model...........