clarky

I thought that you'd be the first to do the Class 46 nose Brian!! Looks great! G

Cracking stuff and as Teddy Bear says, they did work London Bristol trains in pairs in the mid/late 60s I think every train man loves 37s!

Superb stuff! Looking fantastic Steve! (I assume that the green EE Type 3 must have worked an excursion into Paddington!!) Fabulous modeling! G

It is a lovely model. It captures the real thing beautifully..............and I'd forgotten how big they were!

Brian said JLRT on his earlier post.

No ETH jumpers and no MU jumpers for earlier ones either (at least not in my blue one) g

The detail pack has got four inner sandboxes, a full set of four spare lamp brackets (and nose corner mountings), two roof water filler blanking plates, six body side footstep blanking plates, 2 alternative "blanked off" lower bodyside grills (as shown on my photo on here) and two side blanking plates for the bodyside boiler vents (the vertical rectangular vents at No 2. (non radiator) end). Apart from the sandboxes and lower bodyside blanking plates (which are plastic), everything else is brass.

The rear sandboxes are supplied by Heljan, but come separately in the little plastic "goody bag" I couldn't find any reference to Peaks in standard blue livery still having them fitted. I'm sure that a head-code dot loco wouldn't still have them fitted as you point out for 4504 As far as I can tell, they were removed in the mid/late 60s, leaving 4 big bolt holes in the rear bogie frame side I can remember asking one of the chaps what had been fitted there when I was doing my apprenticeship at Derby loco in the early 80s, so the rear sandboxes were long gone by then.

Absolutely right Brian. I think that a little bit of superglue is probably the only way they won't get damaged

...............and the front lower lamp-bracket, was easily bent back into shape!

Here's a pic of one of mine (I bought 2) Lovely model as you chaps say. My only (slight) annoyance is the location of the builders plate, which is as per Class 44s and far too close to the cab door for a 45! Great looking machine though! My other will be 64 "Coldstream Guardsman" I've painted the wheels and the bogie side-frames and numbered her, but other than that, its just as out of the box.