Right so here I am again, tlaking about the J39.

I decided that in keeping with all of my other modified locos the front coupling hook needed to be replaced with some brass wire, to necessitate this I sawed off the mount and reattached the steam heating pipe to the buffer beam sealing in with cyno-glue.

I also added some steam injector/ejector pipes to the underside of the footplate as per some refercne photographs I have seen. I find that although I'm not making an absolute scale model of the loco, certain small details such as this can really add some extra depth to the overall outcome and generally differs this model from your basic off the shelf J39.

Also after consulting some photos, I added a pipe to the air reserviour tank using some brass wire put into a drilled hole.

I ahve also decided to open the ventialor hatch with a drill bit filling it general away to the slide bars and replacing the original hatch with some plastic strip. The white thing at the batch of the cab roof is the taraulin. This was made with some tissue paper (from shirt packaging) crumpled three times, bundled up and soaked in pva/water and elft to dry on the cab roof. Once dry you will have a nice roughly curve the same as the roof, peel it off and put it aside to be painted. the pva once dry should come off the plastic easily.

As you may have seen there is also a smaller piece of tissue paper which (hopefully) will become the firemans coat.

I finally decided to add the air reservoiur tank and the boxes to the tender in perparation for painting.

And now, I've taken the model completely apart, cleaned it with white spirit and have put it to one side to awat weathering