Coming along nicely
good clean workmanship too.
Sadly I didn't have a green field site when I did mine, it was a bring and buy bargain that turned out not to be, but after a lot of work it pitched up quite nicely.
One thing that niggled the bejeezz out of me was the panel over the smoke box, out of the kit the chimney is plonked on top, in real life this is not so, in real life it's sat on the smokebox wrapper like a real engine; two half plates are then fitted over the top.
I threw the kit part away, dropped in a new base plate set about 2 mm below the tanks, fitted the chimney then added the cover plates so that there was a small gap around the base.
The firebox should be raised as well, that cover plate was trimmed back and a raised firebox section was fitted.
Cover plates were tinned underneath with 145°C then a thin sliver of 100°C flashed in with the micro torch. You probably stand more risk of buckling the half etch tops than melting the white metal tanks to be honest.