Hello and welcome to this entry for my silver service blog. I have been forgetting to take pictures so unfortunately this will be mainly/all text. However anything which I haven't covered already will be covered or should of already of been.

I have now brought all my coaches.

Midland Mainline TSO R4214A: £20 x5 = £100 (+£3.99)

Arriva Trains Wales Buffet R4636: ~£25 x1

Midland Mainline TGS R4591 ~£25 x1

(+£7.00)

Wrexham & Shropshire DVT R4472: £24 (+£4.00) x1

The price in brackets indicates the postage.

All apart from the DVT were new as I couldn't fins many ebay prices which were reasonable and defiantly the coach tooling I wanted.

The DVT was an easy process. I used white spirit and kitchen towel to remove the logo. However I did use a cotton but at first on one side which didn't remove anything but instead left scratches!!! If anyone could tell me any scratch removal process I would be most grateful.

So the next thing is the TSOs. These have been detoled (new word). I am waiting for some 3D printed doors to come and these will be fitted.

The Buffet coach and TGS are in the process of being detoled (upon the process of writing this however I will be writing this over a few days so more may be posted on them later in this post.). They were really hard to get into and I used the method as described as described here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/42857-Hornby-mk3-tgs/?p=462551

As I have damaged the windows I have some shawplan windows which will be fitted.

5 packs for the TSOs came to £41.75 delivered.

The coach I started last week I sort of did in the wrong order. I am calling it my experimental coach as I wont be running it in the fleet due to errors I have made on it.

Firstly I painted it. Yeah. Biggest mistake ever.

So then there is one window on the Chiltern Mk3s which has been filled and been replaced with an electrical cubord so I filled this in next. I will show how I did this with pictures in a later blog. I did this to the wrong window which is the main reason it is now permanently rejected.

Then I used a craft knife to take the doors out and used poly cement to glue in the other doors.

The pictures below show what I ended up with.

Not the best job at all.

So that the brief over cap. The "proper" work will now start.

NOTE TO SITE ADMINISTRATOR: PLEASE CAN WE HAVE AUTO SAVE HERE? I SPEND HALF AN HOUR WRITING SOMETHING, PRESS BACK SPACE AND LOOSE ALL MY WORK!!!

So now I have to re-type everything >.< This means there won't be as much detail as I originally typed as I am quite fed up as this has happened about 3 times while I have been writing this thread. Don't think I am bad on computers. My other hobby is making games and they have paid me a bit (where funds all go into model trains).

So now everything will be bullet pointed instead and most thought excluded.

1. Cut the coaches. (Not sure how accurate this is compared to IRL business zone, Works window counting wise though.)

2. I attach shells onto 1 under frame. This fails. I cut up old savings cards and super glue these in.

3. I then use ronseal high performance wood filler to bridge the gap.

4. I sand the external filler down.

5. I patch it up with Hornby/humbrol model filler.

It is a real shame we don't have auto save as I had but really hard work into this blog for it to just be lost. This is a 5 minute quick summary compared to a 30 minute quality write. I am really tempted to move this blog onto another site now.

If you have any criticisms about my project so far please wait until my next blog post is out to shear them as I am fed up with RMWeb right now and any negative comments will make me really angry and it isn't nice of you to disrespect peoples feelings.

I mean RMWeb often seems to auto save my non-submitted forum posts so why not blog posts?