Just a quick peek into the advent calendar of miniscule modelling today, and nothing tangibly real I'm afraid, but some ongoing design work.

Back in the 1:450 scale work, I am planning a layout based on the Welsh Marches Line in the early/mid nineties. This will of course include my Class 37 design on a mixture of Rugby specials and Class 158 replacement duties. When the properly shortened 37 is printed, I am looking to wrap it in a large logo all over transfer as 37408, and have it tow a short train of assorted Mark Ones and Twos in Regional Railways colours.

I was also pondering a freight train. Here we come to a conundrum as the traditionalist in me likes a freight train to have a brake van, for no other reason than to add variety to the set and offer awkward modelling challenges. This is a tricky ask as the wagons I am after printing need to be modern bogie ones to use the stack of bogies I have waiting....

..the obvious answer, some tiny printed Seacows with a Shark nibbling along behind them, see the designs below. Bear in mind the Shark could be parked on a human thumbnail without overhanging either side 'Italian Job' fashion, which accounts for the rather over emphasised details! The same goes for the Seacow, I am coming over all Tri-ang and printing a raised 'lip' around the top of the hopper to make it easier to paint on the yellow bit of the 'dutch' livery...

And also, talking 'T'..... there is also a bubble car on the way, designed to fit the medium sized chassis ('19m') from TGauge.com.

Still some way to go with this yet though!