I particularly like all the half etched holes in the body sides that make riveting that much easier. Sadly none are provided for the front and rear cab so I added these myself using photos.

I`ll get all the negatives of this kit out of the way in one go....................................................

The smokebox, boiler and firebox are dimensionally wrong. I struggled to assemble them as accurately as I would have liked and very nearly binned the whole project.......

On the plus side they assemble together as a seperate removable unit.......

The smoke box is the kits worst assembly, made up of four brass overlays none of which actually join together underneath....... The outer riveted overlay is far too small...

However, if you have worked with 4mm Jidenco etched kits from the 70`s and 80`s you will have learnt how to remedy things.......

You will also ,because of the thickness of the brass, be happy to anneal the cab roof, the firbox and the loco rear bunker to get the shapes and reverse curves easily formed.

Finally the cast chimneys are way too small and the smokebox door being 30mm dia is too big. Again, Laurie Griffin comes to the rescue......

There is supposed to be a front cylinder cover between the extension frames, but this is neither mentioned, illustrated or included in the kit.