Just like buses, just after you put one post out, more news arrives on the electronic pigeon. In this case it is progress with the front end which hopefully will be assembled soon to give the locomotive its face.
There's definitely something in the psychology make-up of humans that we are much happier when we can see the face of anything, locomotives included.
Latest pictures show the fabricated smokebox saddle (upside down) and a view into the workshop through the smokebox itself showing the rolled cylinder and the machined door ring.