Progress on the loco shed at last. I decided to use the Hornby diesel depot as a base. The side windows have been covered with Wills corrugated metal sheets and a coat of Halfords Grey over the top. The roof has had a coat of Halfords Matt Black and I still need to do some dirtying up of the walls and some painting of the interior fittings. The shed floor is from the Scalescenes kit (which was my first attempt at a depot). I'm not sure how long the card approach will last ... hopefully long enough for me to finish the layout and then get round to more detailed finishing.

I've also ... carefully... fitted chips into two of my Bachmann 4-CEPs - here they are in the sidings waiting for duties. The chips are the new Hornby Sapphires which seem to be working out ok.

And finally another chipping effort. A Hornby 08 that has been fitted with the TCS DP2X-UK (the direct fit one). With a 60 minute running in (one of the benefits of having a circuit) this is running very smoothly.

The flash on this photo shows up the rather horrible colour I used for the last bit of the track spraying. Its a bit too glossy so i'm going to tone this down soon with some matt paint.