After a few weeks delay I have now formally completed the construction of my latest coach kit which is a Comet kit of a Thompson Corridor Third no E1469E in early crimson & cream livery.
The coach will run in my Eastern Region inter-regional set on Bodmin Club's Old Elms Road layout which will be at the Tolworth Showtrain event in November.
It is one of 5 kit built Comet Thompson coaches I have built for this 8 coach set (the other 3 coaches in the set being Bachmann Mk1 stock).
After a couple of weeks off from work on holiday I had hoped to complete both my Comet Bulleid BCK and Thompson SK coaches but the glorious weather has actually hindered me as my wife has found a number of things that needed doing around the home instead. However the Bulleid BCK is now completed and has been finished as S6723S in BR Southern Region green. The Thompson is still in pieces in its box.
This Bulleid coach unusually caused me some frustration at the final stages because when I
It seems the thing to do these days is to let people know exactly what you are building - you never know there might be somebody interested out there.
Well my passion is coach building both OO and O gauges - primarily Southern region coaches but not necessarily restricted to just that region (if the right kit comes along at the right price then I will try and build it!)
New out of the works over the last couple of weeks have been:
Maunsell Un-classified Corridor Brake S4440S from a R
Can any fellow Southern followers help me.
having recently purchased an O gauge Westdale Restriction 4 Maunsell 'high window' 1929 composite coach on Ebay for a very reasonable price and having now successfully built it, it is now primed and ready for painting and numbering.
I am looking to run it as a loose CK alongside a 3 car Bulleid set that I have previously built.
However having done my research (rather late in the day), David Gould's excellent Maunsell Carriage Stock book ind
