It’s all been a little quiet on the Princess front. I got the second test print back and to my dismay there was a large* gap between the  front ring and the front of the firebox

*I say large it wasn’t that big in reality but certainly too big too disguise.

I returned to the drawing board and then discovered that I had misread the drawing so I drew it again. After my redraw there was still a 0.3mm gap at either side so I took a copy of that design and hacked it to correct it. 

Although I managed it I wasn’t happy with the way I had gone about it so I took a second copy and tried to adjust the sketches but because I had made the fundamental error of adding all the details before the adding front ring which fits inside the kit boiler and checking the interface between that and the firebox front. The net result of altering the sketches to make them wider created so many errors that in the end I gave up trying to correct them and started again.

This time I drew the basics and made sure that the overall dimensions were correct and worked together before I added the details. It’s now on it’s way for what I hop will be the final print.

The good news is that I didn’t need to redraw the lower sections of the firebox because I checked that they still fit as I was going along.