New poster looking for help

Those white components look fab. I'm getting really excited about my 'project'.

Cheers, you can get stuff powdercoated up at Armourtex in hackney, £40 per colour - so if you go in with a frame, a fork and a chainset you can get them all done for £40.

Top quality, very very hard wearing, no drying time ! :)

I'm still looking for frames but I don't think I'll manage to find vert dropouts and don't want to start paying for frame alterations. I really need to keep this a budget build :-( I'd love to be able to get carried away with this one.

Are tensioners and vertical drop out SSs really much worse than horizontal dropout SSs?

Frames with horizontal drop outs are fairly easy to find, there are loads about and they are no more expensive than frames with vertical drop outs.