Put your hand up if you thought I'd ever get this far.
Reversing rod (very flimsy etch, so backed with a piece of nickel silver which allowed me to fork the end) and a clip to side of the firebox made from scrap, hand rails on cab and above centre footsteps, all footsteps and wash out plugs.
The wash out plugs were made using the Dikitriki method. Those at the top of the firebox are 0.8mm square rod and the bezels are 12BA washers curved to shape. The bezels of those on the side are copper soldered on and filed back to shim thickness. The lower ones are deliberately a different pattern again made from copper but not filed back to give more depth - see the prototype photo below. Those scratches from cleaning up the solder look horrendous, but it's a trick of the light.
Here's the copper being made in to the bezels, and the brass scrap of various thicknesses for filing the rod and bezels back to the required thickness. The initial bezels I fitted were from 0.5mm wire and were too big. I eventually settled on 0.3mm which looked about right. The chunky plugs are from 0.8mm copper and not filed back to give a profile a bit similar to those in the photo below.
This photo is copyright Transport Treasury and included to demonstrate the two types of plugs - in this case two different types in the same row. My photos of 32337 indicate that the plugs at the bottom of the firebox are of the chunkier type.
At this point I couldn't resist placing a chimney, dome and smokebox door.
There are still a lot of fittings to make up and apply, but it actually is starting to look like a "K". That dome is a bit high but I can file that back. The profile isn't bad, though. As for the chimney, that's where I may need some guidance (Dave and Steph?)
Here are some photos of the body with each of the chimneys I have for this model. With reference to the prototype photo, which is the nearest?
Firstly the chimney which is the original one for the K, but which looks closest to the prototype photo to my eye.
Then the one which is supposed to be for the cut down version, but it looks too squat to me.
Lastly is a version which was suggested as the most appropriate, but this one looks too fat and squat. That capuchon is wrong too, but that can easily be filed back if we agree it's the best one.
Any thoughts about the best match will be gratefully received.
Brian