After a bit of a hiatus caused by the need to finish my entry for the 2011 challenge, one half of set 331 is now finished.

The vacuum formed roof proved tricky to get to fit - it does now fit despite appearances in the pictures.

The roof ventilators are a strange mix on this particular coach - one large torpedo vent, and some odd looking oval ventilators (no doubt somebody's patent carriage ventilator that the SECR decided to try out). These were made from some ABS torpedo vents with the torpedo parts filed off. Luckily the Phil Coutanche book on SECR carriages has a good photo of one of the other batches of corridor brake composites that shows these clearly enough to figure out what they look like.

Apart from the roof this kit almost flew together and I'm very pleased with it. More Roxey coaches should follow it in the future.

The other half of set 332 is a Thanet Third from Worsley Works. The etches are shown here:

Work started by adjusting the profile of the ends. As supplied they seem to have the same curved profile as the later Maunsell Restruction 4 stock, whereas the real coaches had almost vertical sides with a very small tumblehome at the bottom. This only took a minute or two with the file