D816 is one of the examples that retained or were refitted with multiple working jumpers. These have been made from a scrap of plastic and some thin wire.

I've also added the odd footstep under one of the buffers. This came from the etch in the Craftsman detailing kit for the Lima Warships (which claims to cover D813-870 - but actually only covers the class 42 unless you ignore all of the class 43's detail differences ).

It needed some modifications to fit, and one of these etches had to be reversed as Craftsman etched them as mirror images rather than identical. The rest of the buffer beam detailing will be a mix of Bachmann and Craftsman pipes. The oles are there, and they'll be added after painting.

I've also filled the rather large gaps around the bodyside windows. Since I'd managed to damage one of them, it was filed back to the frame and will be modelled as open. This was a bit of a pain to do, so I'll only be having one open window.

The main outstanding piece of work is the speedo. There's a reason why that's been left to last, and it's not because I'm looking forward to doing it