Modelling is slowing down ready for the Christmas break as the spare room gets taken up by sleeping family members.

Plus I'm in the vain hope that if I don't crack on with my Bachy/Hornby 24/1 model Hornby will announce it on Monday.

The 40s are tucked up and waiting for their Bachmann Chassis, or selling on eBay if the new Bachmann retool really is the holy grail.

So for "FWL" three class 47s appeared. These girls are from 3 different ilk, and really transcend my active modelling years.

1764 (Bachy's first GFYE beast) was brought for me when I was 19 as a leaving present for my first job. The BFYE headcodes and yellow weathered duff I treated myself too when I was quite a bit more well off from a pro modeller, the final duff an out of the box duff who's bad headcode box had seen her enter the 'I'll fix that one day' shelf.

And now the layout Klaxon has called and they are required.

Also the new calendar for 2013 arrived, the missus hasn't seen it yet.

I know the Bachmann 47 is far from perfect, but to me it looks the part, and as it's a side show to the NCB's finest we hope you'll be distracted by some hellfire 0-6-0s rather than the duff's bogies.

Here they are out of the shoe box:

Part way through her 'deweathering'

All polished and ready for some transfers:

All three are now wearing their liveries minus numerals. GFYE will get new numbers in the corporate font. The pair of BFYE end examples (featuring the never modelled by Bachmann headcode/serk grille combo) will carry two differing variations of blue, one with arrows behind the cab doors and the other with a single one in the centre of the bodyside. Everything will be pre TOPs to fit into the 70-72 period.

Roll on Monday and what 'Shocks' Hornby's announcement contains!