Centenary restaurant first and third cars
I've sort of finished the restaurant third, so here's a shot of it running in a train next to the restaurant first. They were orientated this way, with the pantry end of the third adjoining the kitchen end of the first. The other cars are bog-standard Hornby and Airfix centenaries, still with "Beclawat" windows. (Beclawat are still in business, by the way).
There are (as is always the case with me) a few little jobs to do but for now the coaches look finished enough to sit in a rake, and dare I say it, I'm pretty pleased with them. I was a bit worried that the differences in tone and lining between my painted examples and the RTR versions would be jarring, but in reality, and with a train running around, it's not too bad. I may re-spray the brown on the RTR ones at some point, but there is some obvious variation in the models between batches and doubtless the real things were not perfectly uniform in any case. One obvious still-to-be-done task is the refitting of the roof boards.
I have one more donor centenary (a BR maroon example, so with entirely the wrong windows) so I may do another of these Comet overlays at some point. But for now, it's on with the Blue Pullman.
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