Not really much to show, but a lot has been going on this week. Trouble is, it's mostly been things I've talked about before...

First up, I've completed my rake of GCR stock. These were four hackbashes of Mainline LMS stock into GCR 'lookalikes'. I'm now the proud owner of a pair of brake thirds, a composite and an all-first. Of course, this was before I found that GC expresses generally ran to five carriages of the order brake third, restaurant first, composite, open third and brake third. I've bought another Mainline carriage to convert to a 1909-built open third, which should complement my existing rake which are based upon 1911 stock. As to the restaurant first, I don't think there's an appropriate drawing in George Dow's three-volume history, but I think there is a drawing of a restaurant composite. That, or I could drop lucky on a photograph.

Work has progressed on 'Centenary'. The painting of the tender is now finished and the tender itself now awaits coal rails (which I can't find available anywhere...) and a coal load. The locomotive has been given a few coats of the same apple green to achieve a decent match in colour and tone between loco and tender and is now awaiting it's boiler bands to be properly lined out. Then it will need the window openings painted, windows glazed, loco number applied to the bufferbeam, varnishing and weathering.