Had big plans for today but ended up doing lots of different little jobs and at 5pm wondered where the day had gone and wasnt quite sure what I had achieved ?!

After a big tidy up of kit I got a bit more scenic work done round the cabin on the low level.

Spent the morning weathering the first of what I hope will be a complete rake of 10 Seacows in Mainline Blue. The complete train will hopefully feature a pair of sound fitted Cromptons in Mainline branded grey or dutch in the future.

Seacow received a coat of frame dirt on the bogies and the body was coated with a good spray of weathered black. Most of this was taken off with a rag soaked in thinner and cotton buds for the finer detail.

The stone slides at the sides were painted with silver enamel then rubbed over with the blackened cotton buds that were used to clean the bodysides ! The thinner on these melted away parts of the wet silver paint and left grubby, dull black streaks on the metal. Will spend a bit more time on this area with rusty based powders tmow once everything is dry.

After this was done I disappeared up the GCR for a while for a look at that 'Tor**do' steamy thing !! Got to admit it is very impressive, however it put me in the mood to come home and thrash some diesels up and down on the board which then led to 3 new videos all featuring snips of BR Blue ! I must be getting old and nostalgic !!!!

Thats all for now folks, work and lots of overtime beckon over the next week or so to pay for all these Cromptons, sound chips and Seacows !!