Once I had the parcel the locomotive was in, I opened it up in my bedroom and gave it ab inspection. It looked like was missing a lot of parts, the most obvious being the headcode discs and cab handrails. I decided to make a list of what it was missing and it was made up of the following:

Headcode discs

Cab handrails

Steps on the bufferbeam

Vacuum brake pipes

Sanding gear pipes

More pipes

electric cables

I already had headcode discs as I brought them before the locomotive. The folded ones just needed painting BR green as they were yellow. I would fit them after they had two coats of paint.

The majority of the pipe and cable work was on the bufferbeam. I knew I wouldn't be able to fit it all on as the couplings were in the way. I decided to buy these at a later date. 

For now, I would concentrate on getting the headcode discs on the front of the locomotive and sourcing the cab handrails. 

I had a look on the Bachmann spares website (where I got the headcode discs from) and see if I could find any Class 24 cab handrails on there. Sure enough, I did and brought some immediately.

12/04/23

The cab handrails arrived in the post yesterday. I was at the festival of British Railway Modelling in Doncaster so I opened the parcel when I got home. I'll probably fit them on the loco today. I've also brought a bufferbeam detailing pack so that should arrive next week.

Just finished gluing on the cab handrails on one side of D5061. It's an absolute fath putting them on. I decided it would be best to do them one at time waiting until the one I put on first stuck properly and then do the second one. 

I'm going to wait until the glue has dried on the last one and then do the other side. 

Update: Just finished doing both sides. It was very difficult putting them in place but I got there in the end.

The first side I did...

...and the other

13/02/23 

My bufferbeam detailing pack arrived in the post today. I'll have fun putting them on(!) Currently trying to figure out what goes where.