I have moved onto the saddle tank, This was not too painful until it came to the bottom bends.
First the former was assembled.
Next comes the tank wrapper.
I managed to put a dent in it, but the etched overlay should cover it up.
By pushing against the bottom of the tank, the curve wasn't too bad, but as can be seen I was a bit heavy-handed with the RSU probe, it probably would have helped, if I had not resharpened the tip. Hopefully it won't be to noticeable once fitted to the loco.
The destructions say that once you have the tank made up you should drill a couple of holes in the end and fill it up with liquid lead, I used a combination of thin strips of lead and then started to fill it up with 'Fluid Lead' from Eileen's Emporium, it was at this point that I found a big hole in the plan, pun intended, the lead balls started leaking out all over the place, I managed to contain the situation with some handy masking tape.
I blanked the holes I had drilled with epoxy resin and also fitted the safety valve, tank filler and dome, the spigots for the safety valve and dome come through the bottom of the former, so I soldered round these and ground it back flush. Next was the handrail knobs, I tinned these and slipped them on the wire that forms the handrail, a quick zap with the RSU and these were quickly secured. i then tinned an end of the wire pushed it into the knob and another quick zap and all is secured, for the moment the other end is snipped off and needs fettling. This just leaves a hole in the former under the filler i sloshed more lead in here and turned it over and with my thumb over the hole, give it a shake and repeat until I couldn't get any more in a blanking plate was made from scrape etch and soldered over the hole. For the other one I will ignore the instructions and fill all the holes bar one and put the lead in from the top.
Not yet gotten around to taking the final photos. it appears that I have put a dent in the tank.