Having made good progress on my planed revision for the day, I have spent a little time this afternoon working on the B set

I modified the locations for the bogie mounts, increasing the width of the brackets with scrap evergreen strip. This gave a much bigger base to glue to aiding keeping them straight.

A length of brass was evo sticked to the sides to ensure they stay straight.

The roof is a very poor fit (in that it just does not fit!) So far I have thinned the ends of the roof and adjusted the curve on the top of the ends to get them to fit, but the rain strips still sit about half a mm from the sides (so no joint to glue to. Currently my thinking is to glue some square strip to the inside edge of the rainstrip to fill the gap between it and the side.

There is a slight curve inwards at the top of the side, this will be sorted by fitting the partition walls now rather than waiting till after painting.

The roof was modified to remove the Ks ribs which had been formed badly (and at any rate compared to prototype photos looked rather under sized), These were then replaced with strip, and the roof vents were drilled. I suspect the MJT part will be much finer than the old Ks ones, so these will be acquired later...

Next the E140 diagram,

Having finally decided that the fictional raised door handles must go this is my first attempt.

Drilled a single hole in the centre of the handle, then reamed out to size. A combination of careful work with a file and scalpel opened up the round hole to be square (the corners are slightly rounded, but in the end an almost square hole was eaiser than being 100% faithful to the prototypes design.

Once open to size a piece of plasticard offcut was glued to the back, before fitting a square of evergreen strip pre drilled for the handle into the hole. This will need a small amount of filler to fill the gaps.

the raised surround on the grab handle was then carefully cut off with a flat blade

Im quite pleased with the result, not too much work and a big improvement on the original, just a lot more to go! I think I will only be doing one side per coach!