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Interior painted and upholstered… …and fitted within the coach. Decals then applied. Cheers Darius

Ah yes, Traveller’s Fare… I also remember Casey Jones burgers from the mid 1980s - rather liked them… Cheers Darius

Chassis completed and glazing fitted. Cheers Darius

Primary painting completed. Spare Limby interior modified with a plasticard buffet area. Cheers Darius

Ironmongery fitted and primer on. Cheers Darius

My favourite train trip had a Stranraer connection. I had been shortlisted for a graduate civil engineering sandwich placement with BR in February 1982 and was provided with a cardboard return ticket from Belfast York Road to London Euston to attend an interview. The ticket included the Larne-Stranraer Sealink ferry trip and I made it as far as Carlisle before the trip went awry. The overhead wires were down in Cumbria and the London bound train was delayed. I spotted a train with aircon coaches that looked like it was departing, asked a BR person if it was going to London and jumped aboard when told yes. The train pulled out heading south and duly followed the Settle and Carlisle route - spectacular in clear blue skies and recent snowfall. We eventually arrived at Hellifield and stopped for a time before heading to Preston via Clitheroe. We pulled into Preston in the darkness (I had left York Road at 06.30 ish) and then headed south, arriving at Euston at 9pm. I didn’t get the BR job but enjoyed the train trip. My next and most recent trip over the Settle and Carlisle was in 1985 behind Lord Nelson and Flying Scotsman. Cheers Darius

Found this in the stash Looks like some cutting and shutting will be required… Cheers Darius

Decals and further details applied. Cheers Darius

Fantastic stuff. It’s great when older models are given a new lease of life. Cheers Darius

This week I have mostly been working on a DC Kits class 111 DMU… Cheers Darius

MTK Class 33 finished this afternoon. Cheers Darius

Comparison with Bachmann 46… And with the Mainline 45 body - I used the chassis for the MTK model. The Mainline body is slightly shorter than the other two, doesn’t have flush glazing and has an incorrect body-mounted buffer beam. Cheers Darius

Calling this finished. Cheers Darius

Glazing fitted to other cab and decals applied. Still some more details to add and need to paint door handrails. Cheers Darius

Dunglazin - at one end at least… Cheers Darius

Further details added to front ends and buffer beam. Cheers Darius

Buffer beams and cab rear walls fitted. painting done. Cheers Darius

Primary painting completed - sorry no large logo… Cheers Darius

Dunmorfettlin… Cheers Darius

Dunfetlin… I have temporarily fitted the MTK buffer beams to the bogie fronts. There are some 3D printed versions on there way from eBay… Cheers Darius

And watch the smoke from the motor burning itself out as the loco moves not. Cheers Darius

Primer on. Test fit to chassis. Body lowered to final position. Further fettling required at the roof to bodyside joint. Cheers Darius

Acquired recently in a part assembled state - an MTK Class 45 kit. The body side parts were carefully separated and the original adhesive (looks like Evo Stick) removed. The bodyshell was then reassembled. Gaps and joints were filled and left to harden. Plan is to mate the shell with a Mainline chassis. The original chassis weights are probably not required… Cheers Darius

Thanks Gibbo - I had a set of the MPD drawings on my old laptop but it has since died with them still on board. Cheers Darius

Cab front and door handrails fitted. I used 0.45mm dia. brass wire for the door rails and 0.7mm dia. nickel silver wire for the cab front rails. Cheers Darius