Well I have now had my test etches back and after finishing the Gauge 3 (13.5mm/1ft scale) Midland Railway D357 in time to go on display at the Midlands Model engeneering exhibition this week. It's now time to get back to my 10mm scale gauge 1 models. I want to have a couple buit and finished ready for the Gauge 1 AGM next week, I still have to finish the brakegear off and I am not 100% happy with the rapid prototyped axle boxes as yet either.

Once the brass detailing is checked and finished I think I will move on to working on the MR ventilated vans just to complete the set, one advantage of laser cutting the bodies is the flexability of production, when the tooling is just a CAD program.

Off to steward the G1MRA railway at the foss tomrrow, think I will take my BR livery SuperD and BR eara P-Way balast train for a change to chasing a steamer around.

Andy