I know it's been a while, but the weather has been good so gardening and mucking about with my car took priority.
Finally I have made the extended tank tops and filed them down to fit. First photo shows the tops glued together and a card template I made to help with the fitting to the much wider 9F boiler.
A large file was used to knock them down to size - not one of those tiny little things that we modellers mostly prefer. Here's a shot of the body
