After three weeks of decorating much of which being spent dangling alarmingly over the abyss of our ample hallway, I decided that today was going to be different i.e. a whole day playing with trains. Well, not quite a whole day as didn't actually surface until lunchtime but hey, I deserved it! After some consideration of which dormant project to continue with I settled on the Mk2 GVT loco a this would get me cutting metal the quickest. Think again - the revised structure meant a good couple of hours reworking the drawings for my templates but got there eventually. This version is using an inner shell made up of two pieces to which all the outer panels will be attached individually as on the real thing.So here is one half being attacked in the GW rivet press. There is one row of rivets on the inside and I made an indentation for each of the 'spot welding' holes.

The second pic is the side having had all the holes drill through at 2.5mm. These holes will be on the inside and are for soldering the outer panels to from the back resulting in a sort of spot weld that can easily be dressed if necessary.The second pic is the side is in my modified bending jig with gauge blocks being used to set the precise location of the bend with no measuring or guessing involved. So a whole days work has ended up with this looking alarmingly like a cheese grater but it is far more rigid already than the previous version