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Mine arrived today, beautiful model! But mine was not so fortunate in surviving the postie! The model inside the ice cube is perfectly fine so I seem to have got lucky!

Great! Put me on the waiting list haha!

Have bought a number of your kits and loved them! Have you thought about doing a full Mk2 BUO rather than just the sides? it’s user error for sure but I can never get the finish quite right!

Lovely I’ll keep a eye out for them!

These look great! Just about finished my two piece one. A 2 piece one would be far easier though! When will these be on eBay ?

That’s a great photo in exactly the same spot i was in today! They haven’t made much further progress but the conveyor does get substantially higher past that point so I’m sure they’ll have to bring some kit in to get it down.

It definitely took me by surprise! I do hope it’s regular and the BBHT yard is repurposed.

Thanks for the information! I was on a track failure at the time so couldn’t take a photograph unfortunately.

I saw a freightliner container train on 29/01 enter the docks. It seemed well loaded so hopefully this flow has returned! Definitely the first container train I’ve seen enter the docks in the past years. Unfortunately I can’t go that far back on RTT to find out the details

Maritime has taken up a section of wasteland / demolished several shunters cabins and lifted some of the track (Number 7 and 8 Sidings?). Its been there for maybe a year with no rail connection currently. Although it does seem like they could very easily add one

That’s the one! Will be quite the undertaking to get it down! Another “rumour” is that the container terminal now occupying part of the yard is looking to expand. It’ll definitely be a drastic change to the skyline!

Not sure if it’s been discussed here but theres a rumour at work that the Coal Hoppers at Avonmouth BBHT have been sold. On site down there today and progress has started on the conveyor belt with approximately half of the lower end gone!

Looks great! Would definitely be interested in a OO one when they are available!

Looks lovely as always! I’ll be definitely getting one when they are back on the popular auction house!

Well that took a little longer than expected! Took a lot of time to pluck up the courage to take the oil paints to the body but the initial paint fading is done using the excellent Bunters yard video as a guide. I’ve left it quite subtle as the reference pictures show a real range in the degree of fading so I’ve gone somewhere in the middle! Now I’ll be looking to send the model off to be airbrushed weathered as I’m pretty nervous to give that a go!