The tender sides supplied with the Shedmaster kit were a very long, thin, one-piece wrap-arround affair which was soldered to internal strengthening pieces. I just couldn’t manage the thin metal at all; the curved corners turned out all different radii; I couldn’t get the sides to fit the tender footplate correctly; and the thin metal just wouldn’t stand handling at all. I gave up and made four seperate sides out of 0.4mm nickle silver sheet and soldered them in place on the footplate; a much easier solution. The rounded corners were a problem, but I found that simply thickening the corners with scrap and filing them to shape worked well and produced a solid structure. I’ve had some help researching the arrangement of the brake levers under the tender footplate, I understand what needs to be made to represent these now, so I intend to tackle this next.
