Being a bit further along, here's some things I discovered....... (for newcomers, this is the Seven Models Crosti 9F)
I couldn't get the firebox, once assembled with the boiler, into the running plate - tried all kinds of things. In the end I cut the running plate near the cab end, then put it back when the boiler etc was fitted. Bit of solder - can't see the join.
I shouldn't have put the brass boiler bands on - they're far too big, but they're going to stay now.
In the instruction diagrams there are two views of the drivers side of the body near completion. I thought they were sequential, and the instructions aren't clear. It was only after I had bought The Book of the 9F that I reailsed that all that pipework and conduit down that side of the boiler wasn't there on unconverted Crostis, it's something to do with the vacuum brake and only went on after the loco was converted to be like the rest of the class. Of course I'd already spent hours putting it on, and very good it looks too. Hmmmm.
On the tender chassis, I gave up and made my own version of the hanger for the brake actuator. Both the piece (38 see above) and the white metal casting are apparently far too small. I think they might turn our to be invisible anyway.
The first part of the tender body is the cab end with tiny "hinges" and bits of rod. Where it says solder, it would be much more sensible to glue with Hafix, but having started and made a mess with solder and iron, I used my brand new - invented on the spot - soldering technique. Flux, blob on solder roughly in the right place, put part in place and then go quickly over with my chef's blowtorch. Solder melts part into place very neatly.
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