E2 detailing
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Firstly, I'll apologise for the slightly dodgy photo, showing the clutter of my work table. This is the current state of progress with my much modified Hornby E2. It now has buffer beams, buffers, and handrails. Various bits of beading have been added from Evergreen plastic strip, and and smokebox door fitted. The latter is from Mainly trains and was intended for a GWR 14XX tank.
Progress is very slow, but steady. This might get finished at some point in 2012. Since taking the photo I've fitted a Westinghouse pump (a very nice cast whitemetal one, which I think came from D&P models).
One of the big problems I found with this project was a lack of decent photos of the first 5 E2s. Most of the available photos of this class seem to be of the last 5, with the extended tanks. I'm mainly working from a photos of 32100 at Stewart's Lane in the early 1960s, so this is likely to end up as 32100. I'd like one of the extended tank batch as well, but I'm not modifying another Hornby model in a hurry. 
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