Hi all,

The first post of some actual modelling! Oh well...

Recently I uncovered a large scale coach that I scratchbuilt back about a year or so ago. Back when I built it I was so proud, despite having no detail, a poor paint job, the roof was crooked and theh fact it slanted to one side, to me it was damn good.

My Roundhouse Stanley and a mixed train, coach visible, with 'Big Dan' fighting with the 3-link chains...he prefers 'Chopper' couplings now...

After ignoring its bad quality whilst running it over the past season, I found it curled up in my rolling stock box a week or so ago, and decided it needed some work.

First job was the interior - this had really bugged me. So one evening and one half of the coach was turned out with Coffee Stirrer style parrellel seating, other half to follow:

As well as this, the interior was painted with a green colour my mother said was "like something a your baby niece deicied to give back", roof access steps (more coffee stirrers), a handbrake (yep, more stirrers) and door stepboards (you guessed it...) were added. Left to do is the other half of the interior, doors (guess what they will be made of...), interior lighting and a new roof, which now I have all the components for there is no excuse not to get on with it...oh wait my car theory test is in two days so nothing but revision until then..! So more on that in the next post.

Sticking with the large scale coach theme, a new coach was purchased cheap on evil-Bay the other night (sorry for the fuzzy image):

Already dubbed the "German coach" it should fit with the Roundhouse Stanley tram quite nicely. The plan is to slip some Roundhouse Arch Bar bogies underneath, rebuild the interior and add lighting, which should make for a nice easy conversion, however with space for only one coach in the works at the time, that one's on the back burner until the scratchbuilt coach is finished.

That's all for now folks, thanks for reading!

Regards,

Dan