Last weekend while shopping for chips which my man didn't have, I got tempted by the black 04 in the pictures. He has a sale on so it was a good time to get tempted. Then he showed me another one, in green, in "as new" condition, but already chipped. I couldn't decide, so he let me bring both home to decide in my own time. Being an awkward sort, and having run in the new mechanism and compared its performance to the as new one, there's nothing in it, so I'm going back on Saturday to see if he'll let me keep the new black body with the chipped mechanism. Then I'll find me a detailing pack for the body I keep and do my first ever diesel upgrade (I'm thinking etched grills etc). Ideally I'd like to put real lamps but that may be a step too far. I don't know until I've worked out what is possible with available equipment and how to do it. Maybe light guides rather than actual LEDs in the lamps? I suppose that if I'm upgrading the loco it doesn't really matter whether I keep the green one or the black one, but I like the black one as it is for now. Plain black can't be too hard a livery to reproduce myself if I have to. I could also take the opportunity to fill in the bite out of the buffer beam. Having two shunting locos makes me think that my brewery is loaded with money, and it can afford one loco for each direction, thus meaning that I can have shunting locos with a coupling on one end and the other end looking "right" as with main line locos. Until I settle on a suitably unobtrusive coupling system, that is...