Well what can I say, another marathon weekend of work finally over, even resulting in me visiting the office twice on a Sunday, I mean work on a Sunday!!!!!!

However today I manage to fit in a little modelling time, and buy little I mean hardly any, just enough time in fact to take out my soldering iron and successfully set my fingers alight (I am beginning to hate re-wiring the layout).

Being your typical tough northerner pain means nothing to me, so as I type this with still smouldering fingers, I thought I would post a little more for those of you who are interested, in the progress of my Push-Pull train for the branch.

To save time the basis of this conversion was one of the older farish generic coaches from more years ago than I can remember (no seriously I cant remember how old they are, come to think of it what am I doing, Nurse, Nurse is it time for my nap nap). My aim was to produce a vague representation of an LMS auto coach, which if you don't look to closely as it trundles up and down the branch may pass muster.

The progress so far has been very simple, as has involved, the removal of the coupling, a brake hose made from my trusty staple, wound with wire (does it need more, photographic evidence is sketchy), the fabrication of the window frame at the driving end oh and the sun shade (I know Sun in the north-west as if). All I need to do now is paint the end a suitable shade of maroon, paint the roof, glaze the windows and maybe add a few passengers EASY

More importantly I need to decide what motive power to attach to the driven end, I'm pretty pleased with my Johnsonn 1P conversion, but I kind of like the look of one of my Ivatt tanks ant the front????

The other bit of progress on the layout has been on the scenery, but not by me, the Domestic Overlord has been busy making trees for the layout, (I'm sure it was just to prove a point to me that you don't need to super glue them to your fingers). These have then been planted on the layout to improve the look of the layout, and I must say to my eyes its a brilliant job, thanks Your Supreme Overlodness

Well until the next time as ever Happy Modelling