Just a few 'work in progress' shots of my GCR brakevan.

So far I've managed to:

-Cut down the Hornby body by 6mm (removing a strip from the guard's central compartment, slightly offset to bring the screw-fixing more or less to the middle of the chassis and remove the lion's share of the ducket).

- Removed the 4-wheel chassis and substituted a 6-wheel one from a Hornby milk tanker.

- Fitted a strip of 2 x 2.5mm plastic strip below the hacked-up body as a foundation for the running boards and to stiffen up the bodywork.

- Cut away the low panels to both of the verandas.

- Fitted new body panels from 0.5mm plastic sheet lightly scored to suggest the timber planking.

This completes the initial bodywork; next I'll be smoothing it down to get a good finish, giving it a first coat of bauxite paint and then working up the underframes.