The last few sessions at the bench have been spent working on fitting the Silvertown lubricators which I made earlier in the build. After some thought I decided to drill and tap the bases/footplate rather than trying to solder them on.
I did this for two reasons

1. They would be removable for painting
2. Being solid brass, soldering them would require quite a bit of heat, potentially disturbing some of the other details fitted previously.

I have soldered all the wire tails to a strip of etch to keep them tidy but I may have to revisit the length and position of them once I refit the chassis.

I also noted a couple of etched holes in what looks like an inspection panel on the top of the footplate so I turned a couple of small knobs to fill the holes I am not sure how prototypical this is as I couldn’t find any photos which showed the inspection panels.