Progress over the last month or so has been slow. I'm not at the stage of adding detail to both locomotives, and there's an awful lot of it.

The J comes with some very nice castings - even the clack valves with their piping were usable. The I3 on the other hand is needing a lot of minor detail scratchbuilding. Luckily I have photos of all sides of 32029 courtesy of the Bluebell Museum's photo service.

The I3 is a mass of pipes, being air and vacuum braked, and has a Westinghouse compressor (still to be fitted - I've bought the rather nice Alan Gibson cast brass one rather than use the slightly undersized looking whitemetal one). The J is less complex, but has the added complexity of the steam reverser and it's piping. It's going to be a while longer before they are finished.