I have now produced two lighting boards - one for each vehicle of the first unit. Each board powers one vehicles Cab light, Saloon lights & BIL Indicators.

I have used stripboard so I can mount all required LED's & resistors directly to the board to avoid any difficult to hide wiring. Unfortunately with this board in place the standard glazing unit won't fit back in completely so that has had to be cut down with a sharp scalpel and carefully snapping it.

I haven't been too picky with the resistor values as, if the lights are too bright, I can dim them through the LokSound or LokPilot FX decoders as appropriate. I plan on mounting both the decoders in the powered vehicle and using small JST plugs to connect track power and lighting wires through to the other vehicle.

I have some Express Models tower LED's to fit head & tail lights - I plan on creating the lew style light fittings with bi-colour Marker/Tail lights, firstly because this is easier but also as this is what probably would have been fitted if GWR still had any 142s. Once the head and tail lights are in and my LokPilot FX is here I can start to work on wiring in the decoders and connecting everything together. After the decoders are in and it all works there are just a few cosmetic things to sort out - Rebuild parts of the interior, fitting of the NRN radio pods, painting the seating & cutting a hole in the front skirt for future coupling fitting (I hope Bachmann offer their new 158/9 coupling as a spare so I can fit all my 14x, 15x & 17x fleet).

Oh, and then there's another one to do before I move on to my next project!