The next job was to make up the footplate, solebar and buffer beam unit.
The idea of the design is such that if you get everything correct then the footplate just clips into place. I added the solebars and frame spacers to the lower frame at a show. A subsequent test fit of the footplate at home, showed that I had one solebar slightly out of alignment so I had to take it off and reposition it.
Whereas this snip from a photo shows a curved cut out and flat ends to the buffer beam. I have a copy really old NER photo of no2 showing the same.
This is what the kit provides.
I spent the entire day at Thirsk show just carefully folding up the fold around edges for the buffer beams
