Well another few hours in the garage tonight with Jnr. managed to pull the glacis plate and offer up one repro fender.... i have used the original sand guards to form a datum when offering up the new fenders to drill them.. the original sand guards and the original fenders are in a bad way, bud salvageable so will get restored when the carrier is done and kept as spares.
Now to the glacis plate you will notice that the missing top section is being "Pieced" back in.. the question on most minds would be "why not make this from one new bit and weld it in ?" well i have off-cuts of original 5mm steel from the division plate, which i kept back to re introduce back onto the carrier all be it in a different place... i suppose a romantic notion that i want to retain as much original fabric that i can. when its done it will look like it never left the carrier. I suppose it could be argued that i should not have removed it from the remains of the division plate in the first place, hind sight is...yes your right but at the time i did the division plate i was less confident of offering the new steel up to the original stuff, it was easier for me to use the track guards as a datum and run fresh steel above that line.....
i still have some countersinking to do on the front but the bit snapped tonight so will need to get another this week.