This week I have been lucky enough to get hold of a second-hand Bachmann 37671 'Tre Pol and Pen' in Railfreight Distribution triple grey livery. It's an earlier release without any tail lights but I've wanted a centre headcode 37 in triple grey for a while, so this ticked the boxes. I soon set about to attacking it with the paints and powders!

Given my usual oil paint wash of grubby black, a mix of black and burnt umber washed into the recesses and then streaked using a large flat brush dipped in thinners.Then I masked the clear parts using Vallejo's liquid mask, and gave it a quick pass of Citadel Purity Seal aerosol satin varnish. Lastly I got the powders out, plenty of Forge World Black Soot on the roof and then Humbrol's Dark Earth, with a spot of soot mixed in, around the underframe, lower bodyside and grills.

A grubby workhorse than will look just the job shunting VAA vans on my inglenook. I need to find some replacement lamp brackets on the noses but I suspect an order to Shawplan will sort than out. The model as I received it didn't have any detail pack, so I have raided the spares box.The nose aerials are thin brass rod cut to size. I'm going to try and use some modern Bachmann dummy screw links with my 3 link equipped stock; if it plays up I'll order some Smiths screw links, but I had them spare so it's worth a go!