I have now revived work on my partly finished Class 22 - a Silver Fox resin body perched on a Bachmann Class 20 chassis. While this has been a runner for some time, it awaited fitting of the resin bogie sideframes and glazing of all of the body side windows.

I have now fitted the sideframes but the bogie frames are now a little flimsy so further work required to make the joints firmer. Nevertheless, it ran several circuits of the layout reliably with a trailing load. I did fire off a couple of photos late this evening so will upload them in the next day or so.

I have also packed some plasticard into the body and chassis ends to make it sit correctly. The body is still loose at the moment but I will drill a hole at each end through the screw holes in the chassis and use some self-tappers to hold it all together when I am satisfied I have all the other work completed - I don't want to screw and unscrew them too often.

Further improvements could include some sort of cab interiors and lights for the headcodes, which would mean drilling and filing them out then glazing them and setting up some LEDs behind them.

Currently it has a TCS MC2 decoder, a type I have only used on this model, so far, although I have lots of M1s, DP2X and DP2X-UK decoders from the same manufacturer. I need to tweak its settings a bit more before I can be entirely happy with the behaviour.

Just to keep things going, here is a much earlier photo of the locomotive, numbered D6356, still with its class 20 bogie frames. I need to check whether it is an early or late body moulding for the headcode style as I am not entirely certain I have chosen the right number for this particular model!

Of course, all of this will be eclipsed early next year when the weathered Dapol model I have ordered arrives from Kernow Models!