I'm back!

...with little progress to show for the past months (on the modelling front anyway, other things have changed, such as deciding to go for luthiery rather physics). What I have done in the last week or so is stripped the paint off my GVT Dennis, so I can refinish it with something else. It turns out there was about half a ton of paint on the model, covering a lot of fine detail. Next time I'll try being gentler with the airbrush. It currently look like this:

As many of the smaller parts were superglued on, as well as the spectacle plate being plastic, I couldn't just plonk it in some thinner. I've had to use thinner soaked cotton buds to wipe most of it off. The boiler fittings and the roof are in the glass jar soaking in thinner.

I've also managed to break the solder joint between the tanks/boiler top and the sides at the cab end, so I need to fix that too.

I have no idea how to remove the paint from the plasticard spectacle plate without turning it into a gungey mess or scratching it. I'll probably leave it, there is no detail to be covered up on it.

The next step is cleaning everything, then reassembling and priming (this time with Citadel Miniatures White spray stuff).

While I'm in the mood for stripping stuff, I might even start disassembling my old attempt at a layout to recycle boards and track, but we'll see.