A couple of months ago I had an ebay bidding frenzy on a pair of Geoffrey Allison nameplates, these nameplates went up to £16.52, so I didn't win then, I should have left it alone !!! but low and behold a week later another set appeared on ebay, I stuck on a bid of £11.00, but too my surprise I won them for £3.64, I duly paid my Paypal payment and a couple of days later in the post arrived the nameplates.

37 711 "Tremorfa Steelworks" and 37 712 "The Cardiff Rod Mill", One cheap 37514 form Hattons, and a similar body purchased from a RMWeb member, I set about making up the 37's into their new guises, a good snoop around on the web images, and these renumbers would be relatively simple and interesting, 37 711 seemed easy enough, just put on some ploughs to the chassis a renumber and hey ho no problem.

37 712 "The Cardiff Rod Mill" a quick cursory glance don't see any problem in that one either..........but !!!! upon further inspection, that No:2 looks different ? and it was, so I had to set about doing some "PROPER MODELLING !!!!" The differences noted where the lamp brackets are in a different position, should be easy enough too do, the bottom lip if the nose end is completely flush and does not have the corner curves that then rise in the centre of the nose, and the welded up communication doors are almost flush on the nose end, which is less pronounced than the model which has quite a pronounced welded plate moulded onto it.

So I have made a start on these 2 x 37's, they have had the numbers removed, I will get the number 2 nose end painted up this week to see how the sanding has gone on and what the effect looks like, my last picture shows the differences of the bottom edges between to the 2 nose end designs.