Well all this free time, has seen me in a frenzy of activity, well it would of, if the weather had not decided to gang up on me, it's too hot. Oh and my uncanny ability to find tasks on the layout that just eat modelling hours (more on that project on a future entry maybe).

Anyway in between super gluing my fingers together with a brilliant hit rate (have you seen how quickly this stuff sets in the warm temperature, I barely had time to mutter "Oh sh*@t " before they were stuck fast), and being chased around the room by some rabid WASPS, I have managed to finish the 8F restoration I have been working on.

"Thank heavens for that" I can hear you say or similar phrases are available, the old girl has been given a light coat of sooty black to look like an engine recently out of the workshops but put to work to earn her crust. I even applied a similar finish to the Fairburn as a nice change to my usual grimy looking loco fleet.

just for the Spotter out there the 8f is No 8660 and the Fairburn No 2678

A pet hate of mine is the lack of crews in locomotives, and I have got them waiting for the 8F and Fairburn. They will report for duty as soon as I can remove them from my thumb (I wonder if thumbs are left or right hand drive?).

Still here are a couple of pictures of the old girl and the Fairburn, until next time as ever Happy Modelling