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Primary painting completed. Cheers Darius

Started this morning. Some fettling later… Cheers Darius

Finished Cheers Darius

Handrails fitted and decals applied. Cheers Darius

Cab glazing installed. Cheers Darius

Primary painting completed. Cheers Darius

Fettled and primed. Cheers Darius

Bodyshell assembled and test fit to chassis. Cheers Darius

Started this afternoon. Hornby Class 25 chassis to be modified to fit. Cheers Darius

Finished Cheers Darius

Decals applied. Cheers Darius

Glazing, handrails and hosiery fitted. Cheers Darius

Primary painting completed. Cheers Darius

Started on Tuesday. Hornby chassis to be adapted to fit. Bodyshell assembled and trial fit to chassis. Dunfettlin Dunprimin Cheers Darius

Built and/or reconstructed in the past 12 months. Cheers Darius

Keyser LMS wagon kit obtained as part of a job lot of mainly MTK items a few weeks ago. Built in an afternoon. Cheers Darius

Completed. Added nameplates (Fox Transfers), wipers, buffer beam hosiery and cab interiors. Light weathering of chassis to finish. Cheers Darius

Decals on and original MTK undergibbons fitted. Cheers Darius

Glazing and handrails fitted. Cheers Darius

MTK Class 47 painting completed. I also shortened the chassis by 2mm to stop the bogie fronts foaling the buffer beams and better align the bogie-mounted steps with the cab doors. Also by added buffers and buffer beam side valences. Cheers Darius

More China Clay wagons re-covered - this time with the earlier flat tarp. Cheers Darius

Started this morning. The kit is missing the buffer beams. Fortunately I have spares from a previous MTK Class 47 modelled with cut back buffer beams. Plan is to mount the MTK body on a spare Hornby chassis. Joints filled and sanded and plasticard shutter parts scribed and fitted - these were missing from the kit. Primer coats applied. The kit-supplied white metal buffers are a bit anemic (and bent) so be will be discarded in favour of some spares box buffers. Cheers Darius

MTK Western kit completed today Cheers Darius

Thanks for the encouragement guys, but I’ve probably exceeded SABLE as it is… Cheers Darius