Having fitted extra spacers to the top of the sides, the next task was fitting the roof.

For the first coach (a very late production example of the kit) the roof appears to be much thicker than the earlier production kit that I sourced for the 2nd coach. As a result of this thickness the fit is very poor.

a combination of reshaping the ends curve, and thinning the outer 5mm of the roof (careful filing and scraping with a square ended knife blade) I got the roof to fit.

However the rail strip was not close enough to the sides, to rectify this I fitted a length of 20thou evergreen strip the length of the side.

Once glued in place filler was added to sort out any gaps, blend in the gap between sides & ends and to remove the dips in the sides (a result of the moulding process).

Later today I will hopefully solder together the Ks bogies (purely as a test fit until I upgrade to a better quality casting & Bill Bedford springs.

I had planed to spend my lunch break from revision today working on the other coach was let down by somehow ordering the wrong grade of brass strip from Eileens (not entirely sure how I managed to order 4mm by 0.2 when I wanted 4 by 1. Still, sure I will find a use for it and I will need to make another Eileens order sometime soon anyway to get the springie bits.

Unfortunately without the reinforcing brass I cant do much more than just tidy up the mouldings for the sides.

Still need to buy seats and make a sub floor, but I havent quite worked out how I am going to do it yet.