After a longish spell of not doing anything with the buses, concentrating more on the trains and layout building, I have resumed work on the Southdown pair I started a couple of years ago.

I painted the seat units today and touched up some of the body paint work. There is more to do but they are looking somewhat more complete, nearly ready for glazing. I find painting the seats rather tedious, particularly doing the antimacassars on coaches or the seat back handrails on buses.

The First two photos show the Little Bus Company (LBC) Southdown Commer TS3 with Beadle body.

The next two pics show the LBC Southdown Duple Commander bodied Leyland Leopard. The white wheel trims form a light undercoat for the silver that is to follow.

And now, the latest arrival from LBC, a 1951 Bristol LS6G coach with ECW's early style of wrap-around windscreens. I was planning to convert this to a Royal Blue version with rear roof luggage rack but I have decided that this is a little too difficult to do. There is the possibility that LBC may produce the Royal Blue variant later, if there is sufficient demand. These pics show it with the castings cleaned up and primed: grey primer for the chassis and seats, white primer for the body as it will end up in Tilling cream with green mudguards as Hants & Dorset ran them.