Whilst waiting to move house I've been doing a little modelling. I've temporarily abandoned my partly finished B-Set and turned my attention to a Bachmann maroon Mk1 BSK I bought partly disassembled at the last Expo EM member sales. This was supplied with a TSO interior but for the price I thought I can make a replacement interior - and its taken till now to start on it. The BSK is meant to be one end of a maroon named train set - the 'Pines' or the 'Devonian' for my location and period. For the other end I recently bought a Bachmann maroon Mk1 BCK and I thought - I can use its interior as a template for the BSK interior.

Well was I disappointed. I allowed for the fact that the interior would be vastly simplified - but not that the 2nd class compartment spacing was completely wrong! Looking hard through the corridor side windows it was obvious that the 2nd compartments appeared shifted to the right. Disassembling the coach and taking a ruler to the offending interior the problem appeared - the toilet compartment was too big by about 4.5mm, and each second compartment was 1.5mm (approx) too narrow.

So - out came the razor saw and the knife. I've cut the two left most (from corridor side) corridor wall section out, separated them and inserted plasticard strip to increase the spacing. I've cut the corresponding amount off the toilet compartment to the right (from corridor side).

Then glued the lot back together - and now they line up!

And I've also filed much wider the corridor wall door windows, in the interior moulding they are much too narrow. I'ver also cut out the guard's compartment partition windows and made openings in the luggage compartment corridor partition and stuck mesh across the holes.

Now, totally OTT and OCD, I'm going to detail the compartment interiors with remade arm rests, (to all the compartments as I'm renumbering from a WR to a LMR example), headrest 'wings' in the first compartments, mirrors and a vague representation of the reading lights.I'll detail the guard's compartment. I have scraped the white paint off the toilet and guard's 'frosted' windows, leaving a frosted effect so the toilet sinks and the guard's compartment desk will be visible as they are in the earlier builds. I'll paint the interior. I'm contemplating glazing the corridor partition so First and no smoking labels can be put on the corridor side compartment windows ...

so here are some photos of the work so far ...

corridor side partly dismantled:

corridor wall in bits ...

corridor wall reassembled ....

Now when viewed through the corridor side windows the compartments line up!!

More to follow!!