It has been a long time since posting, and as ever you wonder where time goes. However since the last post still being working on various things at a very slow rate!

However, earlier in the year, I picked up a Hornby Super detailed Class 56 in Colas Railfreight livery, which has been in the wars.  There is some damage to the right hand side of the cab roof dome, smashed windscreen, buffer beam damage, which could suggest it’s been dropped. An outer sanding box is missing. It has also lost a left hand side bogie frame. Hornby don’t make spares such as sanding boxes, cab interiors, bogie frames, and other detailing parts as spares. However it’s possible to modify a Mainline / Dapol / Hornby Class 56 bogie frame to fit. These are well detailed and accurate. By removing these from the moulding, cleaning up the plastic between the axles, adding brake pipe detail using 0.33mm brass rod, and finally fitting 1.3mm copper wire mounting points, to replicate how the original bogie frame side mounts to the bogie.