So, this evening my first task was to complete the 1B. This amounted to adding the loco number to the bunker rear and painting the safety valves and whistle in brass.

Then, that done, I remembered to take a photo or two of my previous project- the GC 4-wheeler all first carriage.

And then I was in a position to start a rake of CDC Models Metropolitan Ashbury carriages I bought a few years ago, which have been hiding in the rainy day pile since. I'm considering lettering them as Great Central stock; not a step I'd consider too far fetched considering the last survivors spent many years being hauled behind ex-GC motive power on the Chesham shuttle.

So so far I have cut the windows out and painted the resulting white edges.