I managed to make quite a dog's breakfast of building this, but it seems to have turned out OK.
What have I learned?
I now know how to use the dispenser on the poly cement to just get a drop at a time
I need to dry fit the ends & sides to the floor& check if any length adjustments are required - next time I'll try putting the floor flat on my glass sheet and using blu-tac on the outside of the corners to hold it together
My small engineer's square was a top buy
Injection moulded plastic rapidly disappears when filed
I must buy some filler
I now understand why people buy replacement metal buffers
Brake gear is delicate
Working out the correct placing for the solebars and the sides was, for some reason, challenging - I think this was just beginner's stupidity as with hindsight it was all perfectly obvious. Luckily, I was able to 'unstick' my mistakes and re-fix with only a few glue marks.
I will be painting in the early LMS livery. Getting to a transfer-ready state will be my next challenge, then decorating and weathering.
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