A further couple of evening's work saw the boiler assembled and soldered in to place. The boiler and smokebox wrapper needed some slight adjustments to the correct shape (careful bending with fingers...) and the boiler had about .75mm filed off at the cab end to enable it to fit without pushing the front of the footplate down and out of alignment.

It's still nowhere near finished, but I couldn't resist balancing the castings in place to get a rough idea of what it will look like.