Hello all again. If you have been reading my previous entires then you know of the snag upon which my project had caught, a buffer had broken off the shunter making replacement impossible, worse still I had removed the remaining buffers. This threatened to throw the whole idea into disarray. After weeks of staring at it, an email to the inspiration and a blog entry, both of which went unanswered, I honestly thought that my brief foray into modeling had ended in abysmal failure and that I had ruined a model for no result. Then a very old and dear friend of mine pointed out the obvious solution and its a sign of inexperience that I didn't think of it.

this is the former mount for the coupling, I've since filed it out. above this a pallet of plasticard squares each about 2MM thick will be glued to the body, through this a bore will be drilled and tapped and thus serve as a new connection. the front end will receive similar treatment, belt and braces and what have you.

The new bufferbeam, fore

The new bufferbeam, aft

Removed Bufferblock, fore

Removed Bufferblock, aft

There you have it, apologies for the appalling quality of photography. the resident photographer has been fired... out of a cannon.