Hello - This afternoon I done a little bit more to the second of the pair of Rail Express Colas class 47s '727 "Rebecca"

Ive finished adding all the standard vitrains 'bits' - the handrails , bogie guard irons and bufferbeam steps , areals and lamp irons. Vitrains have also noted the little steps at the bottom of the cabfront are painted yellow on these particular locos - and so have supplied the separate metal steps painted yellow - on other models they come painted black - nice little attention to detail.

If you follow the vitrains instructions to the letter, they tell you to fit a rather strange looking lamp iron above the cab handrail (its a leftover cl37 part) like this -

I dont like to waste bits that come with the locos - so instead take one of the brackets from the right hand side of the sprue , shown below

one cut with a sharp knife - to reduce it to this:

and fit - (I use pva) - it'll be a little loose in the mounting hole - the pva will sort that out. I think it looks much better than the original

As per the other Colas model - Ive changed a few of the detailing bits - the MU on the cabfront socket is again from Heljan, windscreen wipers are A1 etches - ETH parts are Bachmann - Unlike the other loco, 47727 has its ETH fittings mounted under the bufferbeam - with the jumper on the cabfront - Noted by Vitrains who have provied a hole in the cabfront to fit the jumper - plus moutning points on the lower edge of the bufferbeam - handy!

The orange pipes running down the side of the bufferbem should connect up with the ETH fittings - but the way the vitrains body/chassis/bufferbeam separates doesn't allow this to be modelled fully - the compromise doesnt look too bad.

more soon

tfn

Jon