Well I'm starting to panic as the Hull show is now less than a week and I still have to finish the loco chassis plus a few other details as well as painting...:icon_eek:

I woke this morning to find that the roofing felt has two serious leaks that have allowed water to come down through the floor and on to the bathroom ceiling on the second floor so I have been up trying to stem the leaks before the roofer arrived to sort it out, I did get a little revenge as I woke his wife up early this morning when I called to get him over.......:icon_grumpy:

We still only have roofing felt on as they had to strip the back to recover the slates before the roof can be put back on, I just want it done now as I'm to busy with everything else going at the moment as I have been helping Jim all of yesterday to get Cattybrook Road ready for Hull next weekend.

This is still what the house looks like at the moment:

Any way all that aside on with the tender.

Here are some of the main components:

I started by forming the tender flare by rolling it with a 5mm drill bit:

And using the rear part of the tender body as a rough gauge:

I then marked along the top of the flare to bend up the top coal rail using bending bars:

The very thin half etched overlays were then formed to shape and sweated in place after which the three sides were soldered in place on the main floor of the body:

The coal chute parts were then formed up with the inner sides cut to the same shape to clear the internal weight which I have added inside the body, after that the components were soldered together with the coal space gaurds:

The upper coal chute doors were bits of scrap etch from the remains of other kits.

The inner frames were then added along with a start made on cleaning the body up, the tender steps were then folded up and soldered in place:

The basic body now almost complete with handrails and buffer bodies added just awaiting a final clean up before the easily damaged lamp brackets are soldered in place:

The chassis is a fairly basic affair with basic brake gear added and while not strictly acurate it is not that visable and being built to 00 is not really that much of a problem in my opinion:

Darren.