sad I know, but I made a list of things to do to finish the loco - 14 things, so that's two weeks if I only do one a day - eeeek!

so here was the kitchen table workbench last night

The chassis is ready for primer, as is the front bogie having cut off the front section of the Hornby lump and drilling to take a self tapper to hold a Bachmann small coupling in place.

The bodyshell is almost done, I still need to add the screen/window that does behind the driver's seat. I have slotted the bottom of the cab doors to provide prototypical appearance and should allow the fall plate the pass under on tight curves I've also added a couple of 1mm plastikard "cheeks" to the front so the 8F chassis sits a little more snugly

Some of these jobs were not on the list