My relationship with Superstrip didn't exactly start well. I employed the "toothbrush" method and found that very quickly, my lovely clean stripper had turned into a green sludge and sprayed everywhere. Time for a new bottle... more of the same although I have found that it really struggled with the yellow on a L/L Hornby 50. Time for a new bottle...

Got a big one this time and chucked it in a washing up bowl. Dropped the shell in there and sloshed it around for five mins. Bingo!

Now we're getting on better, I've managed to produce this lot:

Untouched Lima 47 - This was more for a test than anything else. I'm happy with the results.

Lima 121 - This now forms part of the current small plan. More on that later.

Lima HST - This came from the Toyfair last week. I'm not sure what's wrong with it shape-wise but I feel the cab front is too rounded.

Mk3 buffet - This will go into blue/grey. Didn't strip the roof as it is part of the glazing and if you look at the lights on the power car you'll see that Superstrip and glazing don't get on (I knew this already but forgot the lights were still in. Grrr.)

Lima 40 - Will fix the cab windows and then find it an identity.

ViTrains 47 - I wanted to see how they looked 'naked'. I think you can tell more about the shape of something when you take away it's livery. I like it a bit more now. The driver's windscreen is fitted with Laserglaze

Heljan 47 - This was to be 47341 in L/L but I'm wavering now. Brake pipes are from the KESTREL spares sprue. Much finer.

Plenty to be getting on with although I'm looking at my Lima 73 and thinking it would look good in grey...