Still failing to update the previous post on my 66s with a photo of the remaining locos, but I've been working on 66705 again. As previously mentioned I had noticed that the flag transfer had started to lift, in order to fix this I started by running a thumb nail down each of the grooves to force the transfer back into place before giving the whole loco a coat of matt varnish. On past performance the varnish will now take a couple of days to dry before I can put it back together again. The end result of this was that the varnish further softened the transfer and made it stick into the groves, fingers crossed it will stay this way once the varnish is dry.....

While I had the varnish out, I also got on with finishing off my Freightliner 57 008. This is the original Bachmann release which had one of the names painted in the wrong place. While the offending plate had been removed back when I got the model, I never quite got round to varnishing to hide the shine. Given that I had the varnish out (Railmatch spray can) I figured I may as well get on with it...

Couple of prototype photos

http://carl-watson.fotopic.net/p11036102.html

http://carl-watson.fotopic.net/p11227305.html

http://theironroad.fotopic.net/p52904633.html

Once thats dry the next job is going to be replacing the roof grills with the Shawplan etch, and then some serious roof weathering to get the roof to match those photos. Looking at the model one area thats really bugging me is the over large high intensity headlight, so I suspect that will have to go at some point as well...