After hearing mention of a spare Bachmann 47 body shell in RFD livery I snapped it up to build as a 2nd loco to run with my other RFD 47 on the Silver Bullets. 
 

The plan is a little complicated in that I have got the loco running in its current guise, but it will eventually undergo a major rebuild.   My longer term aim is that I want to take the body and plastic frame comprising the head stocks from this model and use some Heljan bogies to make an unpowered partner for the other 47.  With the Bachmann block and bogies going under a Vi Trains body that was originally getting the Heljan bogies (but needs to be a runner).

47051 was chosen because it had no name (I need to buy enough etched plates as it is), no tunnel ‘polo mints’ under the cab window, and some interesting weathering where someone had cleaned E W S in the pretty uniform body side dirt.  
 

Today’s work was preparing the donor chassis (ex Class57) removing the sandboxes and changing the battery boxes.  I also modified the class 57s lights to fit the later class 47 design.

the model as then renumbered (Microsol to remove the plates, numbers and polo mints) and replacement Fox transfers added along with a coat of mat varnish.

A coat of weathering powders was applied to the side (using a wet brush to add the EWS), it needs the roof weathering along with various streaks etc (and more dirt around the door edges) before redoing the sides