Hello -

Its been a while since ive done one of these - thanks to my day job

Ive been working through my class 50s (still) another batch are shown here with thier windscreens being remodelled - these have taken quite a while do - i started them a good few months back

bringing my class 50 fleet up to -er, i dont know how many - but when i get to 50 ill stop

Heres a close up of new shawplan window frames fitted - and the very slight reprofiling on to top of the nose. I prefer to use white milliput for this - when all the locos are at this stage Ill then drill holes for the little handrails on top and the windscreen washers.

finally - for my model of Laira I had to include 'scrapper' 50010 Monarch, complete with

a big hole in the roof :

I had a nice trip to warley , and was really pleased to see 47484 on the Vitrains stand - and have now snapped one up for my collection -

it looks nice with 50007. Ive put a few of the 'bits' on and its looking nice though the underframe tanks need changing, and the aerial brakcets too - '484 had straight ones rather than the 'V' shaped ones modelled by vitrains. Still , its a very pretty model I think.

The 50s im working on in this batch incluce Dreadnaught Victorious, Hood and Illustrious - Im blurring history a little bit , as Victorious was an Oxford loco - but I cant resist a 50 with ploughs B)

TFN

Jon