I made up this tool box to sit on the footplate. There isn't much colour on this engine which is why I've painted it the same colour as the wheels.
I've had to put these styrene rings around the boiler to act as spacers for when the slats/battens go on. The boiler is smaller than the collar around it, obviously, and the rings take up the difference in diameter so the battens can be fixed on level. The rings make it look like the wing markings on aircraft that flew on D Day.
The frames now have a black top coat. It's difficult photographing as the finish looks grey instead of black. On the drag beam (that name suddenly came to me
there are a couple of taped 14BA holes for the countersunk screws that hold the footplate in place. To aid rotating the frames for the top coat, I screwed a cocktail stick into one of them to act as a lever. Needles to say and toward the end of spraying, it broke off. I'm not too worried it being wood and easily drilled out albeit, carefully.
Jon