I fitted some whitemetal torpedo vents (from Dart Castings), and used plastic strip to form rainstrips. Then I started to paint the roof.

I also built the turnbuckles in plastic sheet and strip. I didn't follow the Metropolitan carriages for this, but rather a drawing of some early MSLR bogie stock in Volume 2 of George Dow's Great Central. The reason for doing this of course being that I intend this finished rake as being a facsimilie of the MSLR bogie stock of the late 1870s/ early 1880s.

I've also added some footboards and ordered some whitemetal buffers. I reckon that the next update on this carriage may well be showing it off as finished....