Well I always seem to end up to my ears in it, after nearly a years battle to get planning permission to re roof our house with the edition of a conservation rooflight and then trying to get the roofing contractor to start they are finally going to land tomorrow.

I'm both ecstatic and overwhelmed all at once as now I have to make a start inside our bedroom moving radiators, building a walk in wardrobe before over boarding the walls and roof before getting it plastered and finally having the floor polished, phew...:icon_eek:

And then there's the cast iron guttering outside to paint while the scaffoldings up.......

So needless to say I've got my work cut out to get all this work done and battle on with the ROD but I have inlisted the help of a friend as on his days off from being a firefighter he is also a builder :icon_clap: which is has worked out rather handy and takes a little pressure off me.

Anyway sorry to babble on its just got on top of me a little as I wasn't expecting all this till the end of November but after the wait I dare not put them off and I shouldn't really whine on as I knew all this work was needed when I purchased the property.

Anyway back to the more important stuff, the kit seems to be coming along OK even after all the warnings and commiserations it seems to be rattling along not to bad at the moment.

I have formed up the bends in the valences and soldered them in place along with the dragbeam bufferbeam and its overlay and after drilling and filing out the lower windows in the cab front it was soldered in place.

The cab sides have had their beading and handrails soldered on before soldering to the footplate.

I got as far tonight as soldering one of the main splashers in place before calling it a day.

Im still going to try and continue to progress a little each night as I did promise to have it ready for hull, so you will have to bear with me as the updates might have to wait till I have time later in the week.

Added 25/10/09

The front splasher/sandboxes were folded up but when the top was formed it was found to be to etched to short to be of any use so some suitable scrap etch was found to replace the tops.

Top part of slasher formed up but to short......

Scrap piece of etch being soldered in place to form top of sandbox/splasher.

The finished splasher/sandbox ready to be soldered in place.

Darren.