There should have been a picture of the Simplex all finished and sprayed in primer at least tonight but instead you have two cats looking very comfortable together on the other chair. The reason for this (apart from the heating having gone off two hours ago!), is that I have spent most of tonight fitting couplings and still not finished. In truth I am not that far away now but when I came to take a pic the various spring loaded bits shot off somewhere into the mess that is my current modelling tray and really can't be bothered to find them now. At least I know where they are and am not scrabbling around on the floor looking for them.

I completed the last bits of the body but then found that the coupling height was 2mm too low so had to pack out the chassis to raise it up. Then started on the couplings. Am using John Clutterbucks Zamzoodle couplings which are the best scale couplings around. They are not cheap but look good and once set up properly (which takes ages!), do actually work. They are not completely accurate for WDLR as they used a manual link and pin which would be far to fiddly and impossible to automate. Then followed a huge amount of filling on a luckily surprisingly strong body to make them fit.

Far too late to finish tonight so here are two very happy cats!