Having got the back sorted I turned my attention to the front of the tender and the next on my list was the intermediate buffers. The parts list has them as whitemetal casting but I cannot find them so I decided to make my own as I have done for other tenders. However looking through the Wild Swan 8F book, showed that at least some of the Stanier tenders had intermediate buffers that were different from the usual round type.

This is a snip from the tender front photo on page 90

They are interesting enough for me to have a bash at making some.

Here we are with them fitted. I have no idea whether the tender fitted to 8425 had this type of intermediate buffer fitted and almost zero chance of finding a photo to confirm or deny their existence, so I can enjoy them being a little different from the other Stanier tenders that I have built.