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Interior fitted and second one constructed. Cheers Darius

DMBSO interior constructed, …painted and upholstered. Cheers Darius

Buffet/Griddle car interior constructed from plasticard and modified aftermarket seats (from a job lot bought from eBay). Interior painted, floored and upholstered. Fixed to coach chassis. Cheers Darius

Composite coach interior constructed using spare rtr interiors, painted and installed. Cheers Darius

Dunglazin. Cheers Darius

Further progress. Cheers Darius

Hi Leslie, Just nine - photographed each side and two of the ends. Cheers Darius

Sorry DJ - couldn’t help myself. Absolutely superb models Cheers Darius

My blue/grey NIR Mk2s arrived today and mighty magnificent they are too. So much so that I have ordered the RPSI and bumblebee sets. Cheers Darius

Another MTK product taking shape - a 4-GRI EMU (Buffet/Griddleversion of the 4-COR EMU. Started with this just over a week ago. Now at this stage. One more driving coach to complete before final painting and interior detailing. Cheers Darius

The layout has now been dismantled in preparation for my friend’s (and shed owner) house move in March. A brand new shed is to be erected at the new house and the layout will be reinstalled in the new shed. Dismantling was undertaken with minimal damage to the “scenic” part of the layout. The new shed will allow us to iron out the bugs that were popping up with the original layout concept. Watch this space… Cheers Darius

Started on Jan 3rd… Plan is to finish it in this livery. Finishing touches today - jumpers, peops and chassis weathering. Cheers Darius

They are rather nice models The buffer beams on the BR blue version do need to be painted blue, however. Cheers Darius

15 inch. Cheers Darius

The first wagon is a Midland Railway wagon from around WW1. The second “well wagon” version is an LNER variant from the inter-war period. Cheers Darius

Built from the Niu Models 3D printed resin kit. Minor Niggles:- Some of the chassis parts were slightly “banana-shaped”. Hot and cold water immersion resolved that issue. The decals need to be individually cut from the sheet as the carrier film covers the whole sheet. The bogie axle boxes clash with the vertical legs of the brake levers, which may inhibit cornering. Some fettling required I shortened the drawbar between the well wagon and the flat wagon that supports the outer end of the gun barrel by about 10mm. As provided it places the wagons too far apart compared to the prototype photo on the Niu Models thread. Cheers Darius

Built today from the Niu Models 3D printed kit. A very well designed kit that was a pleasure to build. Cheers Darius

Final details applied, interiors fitted, and peops added. Chassis weathering to complete. Looking at the box containing the Class 505 kit now… Wishing everyone here on IRM a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Cheers Darius

Interiors constructed using plasticard and plastic seats from a job lot obtained from eBay some years ago. I ran out of the eBay seats part way through the second coach so I made the remainder from plasticard. Cheers Darius

Cab front and buffer gubbins fitted to the driving coaches. Cheers Darius

Driving Motor and Centre coaches glazed and decals applied. Cheers Darius

Driving motor coach and centre coach painted. Cheers Darius

Pantograph and insulator gubbins fitted to driving motor cab roof. I used a spare Marklin HO pantograph from a Swiss “Crocodile”. Cheers Darius

Hi Robert, The Lima DMU bogies, wheels and MTK motor bogie have already been assigned a new home through RMWeb. Cheers Darius

Close cousin of the Class 306, the Class 506 is now on the workbench. The Lima DMU bogies and pizza cutter wheels that came in the box won't be being used - and neither will the truly awful MTK motor bogie. Made a start on the DMBSO coach body today. Aluminium body roof cut away and replaced with a scratch built plasticard roof. The cars driver and guard compartment doors were a bit coarse so I replaced them with scratch built laminated plasticard doors. This also gave something other than aluminium for the white metal cab front to be bonded to. Cheers Darius