So 70001 is slowly coming together. Not perfect, but quite happy with it for what it is. 

Tried adding grab-rails, but this didn't work well. Anything close to scale was extremely fragile, and my sausage fingers snapped them off again in minutes. Anything strong enough to stand a bit of handling was obviously over-scale... 

There is some weathering to be done once the loco is back together, which should help to disguise the odd paint issue. I'm modelling the loco towards the end of it's career, by which point some wear and tear was evident. 

As I've mentioned before, info on 70001 and 70002 is a bit limited, and one of the french websites I was using has now disappeared, after their servers were burnt out.... 

70001 was apparently withdrawn from Chalindrey in 1983 with electrical issues. But confusingly Flickr has several photos of it tagged as being taken in 1988, and showing the loco complete and coupled to a CC72000. 

Thanks for looking.

Ken