Back up to full speed now after a couple of enforced weeks off. With no further interruptions planned, we're going to work through the loco and get all the outstanding bodywork jobs complete before the internal fit-out begins.

Under the nose-end doors on the lower edge of the valance there's a stiffening member formed of 'feather-edge' section. It doesn't do a lot under the doors but helps a bit by the time it gets to the buffer cowl. Either way, it's very visible in the photos of the locos so it had to go on.

Here's a photo of the section being formed - the initial radius was bent round a former but minor corrections were made by eye.