I've left my macro lens in the office, and won't be going back for it tonight!

On my 'local' (Catalan project), I've made a start on the boards, and started converting some stock to fit in with the generalisation (painting wagons in their base coats, painting one of the locomotive underframes). At present, the stock collection consists of a pair of these (Link), though one is on a track cleaner chassis at present; though that is no great problem, as when I can find another non-digital one on the secondhand market, then the track cleaner is going to get the mod for something else (I'm thinking snowblower).

This is one of the locomotives that was at the Vall De Nuria, but is now a museum piece at Montserrat, and has different pantographs, changes in running gear to a couple of the units that are still in service.

I'm not going to attempt to make the loco look totally prototypical, as it would mean removing 2mm from each end of the chassis, and also the subframe, then cutting 4mm out of the body in slices, also removing the roof and cutting that, and the electrics down in a couple of slices as well, so it's staying as it is in terms of length. Though one of the actual locomotives the model was derived from was tested by B, B & C on the Vall de Nuria (as far as can be told, as there is a picture of one that looks very similar up there on trials).

The cab overhangs are going to get the chop, and also the lights are going to be changed to match this version, and maybe I will convert the cab windows to the three window set when I get round to it (visiting the UK and getting some plasticard, if my supplier can't get any!), but on three of the locomotives out of the four electrics in the fleet, the number 2 end had twin windows instead of three (whilst the number 1 end, which was the one that was usually not coupled had the three). Also the side vents are going to get changed and filled, then the vents are going to go on to the lower side as per prototype. As there were changes done on some of the fleet, during refits and at build time, so across the four that were built, there is no two that are the same.

They also ride a little higher than the prototype (about a scale foot), but with the way the models are built, it would be nigh on impossible taking that 2mm out of them with the construction.

At the moment, the plan of the layout is still sticking to the general adhesion line, so that would give opportunity to run some other things on there, instead of just these and trying to build some of the multiple units (though I may have to for the daily passenger services through the valley), and I'm also on the look out for something that resembles an GM SW1001 (the switcher that is used by Foster Yeoman) in N-gauge as the Renfe 310 was based on this locomotive (of which I can only find an HO kit), and that was converted in to the FGC class 353 that tops and tails short freight between Martorell (SEAT) and the port in Barcelona.