Unlike the last Golden Arrow Crosti 9F that I built and detailed in Hornby Magazine this one's mine (and so is my time) so the standard plain flat sided preheater sections would not do.

Out came the 11mm Evergreen tube, saw and files. Together with some microstrip and a few other bits and bobs I now have this:

I've added a representation of the access door using a circle of plasticard punched out with a hole punch, decorated with microstrip and the "blower" that of course is not fitted to the side of the normal smokebox but feeds into the side chimney from the preheater.

The exhaust from the preheater is again two sheets of plasticard bonded together and suitably shaped.

All this was also done on my first Crosti that started life as a part built Crownline kit bought off eBay. As I'd like to think I improve with each model I am now going to attempt to add the sandboxes for the LHS of the chassis. The one on the RHS is so hidden behind the footplating as to be not really worth it, or maybe not .......