Still slowly plodding along with this!

She's now gained the coaming around the cab cutouts and a tender.

The tender is a Triang 2P/ 4F tender which I've cut down to tank top level then laminated around with 0.5mm plastic sheet to build up a new tank 20mm in height. Some 0.5mm sheet was then cut into 1mm strips and laid down on top of this, and given a liberal smothering of filler to suggest the flare to the tender top. Once a rudimentary interior had been built up out of more plastic sheet, the coal rails were added. I'm not yet entirely happy with the finish of the tender; it needs some smoothing down. But it is nice to see it (even roughly) in the same colour as the loco- it feels as though one last big push will see it pretty much finished. (Though this is far from the case).

As an experiment, I've painted her in just Revell 'Leaf Green' enamel. Usually I give my models a coat of two of this as a precursor to a coat of Humbrol's notoriously thin apple green acrylic, but to be entirely honest I've never noticed a difference between the two. So I'm seeing what it looks like just with the Revell.

Still masses to be done of course, but it is getting there, slowly.