A small project thats been sitting unfinished for years is my retro mod to the Lima Inside framed Siphon G. Of a kind built from 1930, modelled with wrong bogies (just their version of the BR Mk.1) I thought I'd try to see how it looked with Airfix 7' bogies and a repaint. So here it is with the handrails carved off and painted brown. Waiting replacement handrails ...

Question to viewers ... does anyone 'do' pre-blackened brass or steel wire? just that the handrails should be black, and black paint doesn't stick very well to the shiny 0.45mm brass wire sold for handrails. Grateful for suggestions

And transfers - big 'G' 'W' and numbers / weight markings to apply!

the last shows that its roof is much lower than other stock making me wonder about the scale of the model ....