After my first Derby Lightweight arrived I have been busy converting an ex Lima 101 into an early Met Cam to MU with the DLWs - I await the East Anglian version.

The two track route boxes were carefully removed from the ends and the area carefully sanded to give a smooth surface. Holes were then drilled to take the centre and top marker lights, the housings I made out of a plastic tube from a cocktail stick. The lights were glazed using the pips from some spare 101 windscreens I had left over when I combined two 101 cars to give me a Trailer Brake Second. I had spare MU jumper sockets from a Cravens Parcel Car which I am building, so these were added, the whole lot carefully touched up using railmatch green, and finally the lower lining restored using Pressfix BR coach lining.

The car numbers and crests were removed from the car sides using a fibreglass pen - the resulting area was then cleaned up with Teecut. Early BR crests replaced the later ones on the power car, but I still have to add car numbers.

The current tension lock couplings preclude the addition of the skirts, which I have made up from plastikard, but a change of bogie frames to the latest Hornby ones with NEM pockets is planned when I can get some. I added some East Anglian destinations to a sheet of DMU ones I have on the computed and printed same out on a label - then added WELLS and NORWICH to the cars.

I am currently studying the under car details and may effect some modifications as the early units were slightly different to the 101s.

I would add that I describe the fairings under the bufferbeams as skirts, and will post photos of the car front when I have resolved the coupling issue.