It's been a long time since I've written a blog entry, health issues amongst the reasons I haven't posted much - thankfully it looks like I'm on the mend.

A lot of locos have passed across my workbench this year, for those keeping tally:

12 West Country's/Battle of Britain's;

Here's the 12th (number 99) awaiting masking and it's visit to the paint-shop 34021 Dartmoor

5 Q1's

2 M7's

2 T9's

2 School's

2 Granges

An A4

1 28xx (though this ones, not finished as it not on the production slate for some time)

1 N15 (That surprised me, I thought I'd done more of them than that)

1 Merchant Navy

And finally a B1;

This is one of 2 Bargain B1's I picked up from Rails, I had to swap smokebox doors to create the correct one - 61313:

Since I took this picture, she gained numbers, crests and Shed code plate (41D), though she ended up on Southern Rails for a time

(Tender and Engine are separate at the moment, hence it looks odd in the picture)

There's a whole load more on the slate too:

The 28xx I mention above

8 more WC/BoB's (Number 13 will be started in a week or so all being well, that will be number 100 for those keeping count) - 2 are return to works.

2 N15's (including a mismatch tender )

Another Q1, plus a N class, another B1, a 57xx and a Standard Arthur - haven't done one of them in a long time.

There'll be more I know.

That's all for now

TBG