After a long break getting ready to move house, I've been able to get at the work bench again. The target - a couple of old Airfix non corridors, modelled on the LMS Inter district stock, to make my 'scratch' S&D local train. My excuse is - there was a pair of Period 2 Inter-district coaches running Bath Green Park to Bristol, they appear in a photo taken at BGP in 1954. From looking at photographs, some of the S&D local formations running from Highbridge to Evercreech had one of these with a more common Stanier or Period II non-corridor. Anyway, they were cheap and worthy of a bit of upgrading. So, under frames and interiors have been detailed, and the bodies flush glazed - only cheap and cheerful SE Finecast, but the appearance is transformed. I'm also using them as a test bed for inter-stock coupling ideas, (how to get a pair of P4 coaches propelled around a 3'6" bend ...)

Here are the promised photos - the coach still have a few things to do, not least some more under frame painting and finishing off the numbering, and I hope class / no smoking labels in the windows. I'm not sure how successful they will be in the Se Finecast flush glaze windows

both together, need some adjustment to the bogie pivots as you can see they are not straight!!

will post some more when complete