It's not a job that can be rushed so it's taken most of the week to get to this stage.
The nameplates and rather small Hunslet works plates are on order from Narrow Planet.
Incidentally, if you ever wondered about the brass band which adorns its distinctively tall chimney, it's not just baby Hunslet bling.
The story goes that after the engine's arrival at the FR, following it's purchase from Pen y Orsedd quarry by a group of volunteers, it was discovered that at some point there had been a very rough repair to the chimney and the band was added as a colourful way of covering it up.
I've always thought it rather suits it and completes it's rather cheeky character.
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