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Gort-geous! It's coming together very well

Thanks for your comments. I've been fitting magnetic couplings - great for coupling, but no automatic decoupling! I've put a decoder into 84, 'Falcon', and she's now on the roster. Another engine from harry Mulholland's Knockmore Junction layout, latterly he had her in a display case in the nursing home. She was originally a clockwork model built by Fred Graham in the 1950's. When Harry got her, Adrian Rowland of North Star Designs rebuilt her and she was professionally painted by Larry Goddard. Way back in 2004! Here a photo from 2010 at Knockmore Junction

Thanks for the comments, guys. Golfer's saloon and some 6-wheelers would be nice, Colm. Here's video of her going off to collect some wagons. The decals show up differently in the video, not so obvious on the layout!

More work on No. 6. The tender chassis, I've used Slater's plastic hornblocks, split axles and de-insulated the wheels so that no wipers are needed for pick-ups On the loco I did the same for the leading wheels and used fine wire pick-ups on the drivers. I tried lining the loco with the Rotring, but made an absolute mess of it! Plan 'B' (or maybe plan F or G --) was to draw the complete cabside and splasher in CAD, trying to match the loco green and drawing in the lining. I printed it onto white decal sheet and although the green isn't quite right, it will have to do! A bit of weathering will hide a lot. Kieran found a photo of the crest, again scanned into CAD software and scaled to size. (Several sizes, I chose the one I liked best). Here's the (very nearly) finished engine. The edges of the decals can be seen if you look for them. So don't!! And she's a nice runner.

A super model! All it needs is a roaring fire in the grate and smoke from the chimney. What colour shade is the yellow brick?

Brilliant! So maybe we could move the bogie pivot....................................................

That's good progress, Kieran. Will look good when it's running

Trying my hand at lining - and I'm not impressed! I've had Rotring pens lying in a drawer for years, so I thought it an opportunity to try them again. Perhaps if I took it off and tried again and again and again and... !! Ravelstone Central now has some more canopy, Evergreen strips mek'd to the glazing. The footbridge is a plastic laser cut kit from York Model Rail.

Covid Tunnel - 2020 yards; perhaps I should have numbered it as 'No. 19' also! At the other end 206 will burst into the light in 2021

A bit of scenic work to take my mind off lining No. 6!

I hate masking tape!! Sometimes I attach it to my arm and pull it off hoping that some stickiness will get lost. Any recommendations for a tape with minimum sticky?

Yeh - lighting add great atmosphere and lends itself well to photos where one can isolate little cameos

A little further on - Green & Black (not chocolates!). I mixed about 10% black into GWR green - the boiler in the picture looks lighter than it is.

I'm looking forward to seeing this when (if?) we get exhibitions back on course

As far as I know, Des was happy enough with Eric's painting. Here's today's work - primed in grey, airbrushed using a tin of cellulose EP21 grey primer which I got from North Down Motor Factors.