Once Railex was over, I was planning to start work on 'Callow Lane' again, and so I've been doing a bit more work on the signalbox.

The lever frame has been painted and the main structure of the box has been sprayed with a mixture of Humbrol and Precision cream colours. The box will represent one of those Midland examples that got repainted into Western Region chocolate & cream in the 1950s. I will be picking the main structural woodwork out in a chocolate colour in due course. My prototype example is the box at Painswick Road, Gloucester (on the now closed line from Tuffley Jct to Gloucester Eastgate).

The levers are correctly coloured according to the signal diagram for the layout.

Here is the box with the sub-roof assembly sitting on top (not yet attached). This consists of the guttering and a sub-assembly for the actual hipped roof to sit on. This had to be shortened, as the original Ratio version is for the longer 4-window box:

I'd shortened the sub-roof assembly some time ago, but the spectre of having to shorten the actual moulded Ratio roof assembly was always looming.

This is quite a nicely moulded slate roof, and I'd decided that it would probably be less work to carefully shorten that (by 24mm) to fit the 3-window box, as to scratchbuild a completely new hipped roof and cut new slates to fit etc. So, this afternoon I carefully cut one end of the standard moulded roof off, shortened the rest, and glued it back together. When the MekPak is dry, some filling will be required:

The bluetak is to ensure the whole thing stays flat as the glue sets.