Here are the photos I promised in the original entry here, hopefully they illustrate my ramblings a little better

A comparison shot between a fully detailed Farish 150 with BSI and the Tomix Scharfenberg, hopefully showing why I am using the Farish BSI to detail the outer end of the class 153

Scharfenbergs together. The height discrepancy is nowhere near as bad as the photo looks, it's due to the 150's bogie pointing up slightly

Nice and close coupling. Although not illustrated here, the corridor connectors are pretty close, and whilst not as close as new Mk1s, the close coupling mechanism on the Dapol 153 allows them to negotiate corners ok. It really does show the difference between the Dapol and Farish attempts at the bogies though...

Work on making the front fairing a more realistic shape, including the electrical jumper cut out. This is the end that will be detailed with the scale dummy coupling

Various angles, hopefully explaining the coupling mounting to the sprinter bogie as per the previous blog entry

A trimmed down Dapol 153 plough against that of a Farish 150, showing how although it's still a bit thick, with a lot of cutting and filing it can be made a reasonable shape - this image shows how huge it was before:

Between snapping the photos and getting the chance to get them online, I have done some work on the underframe, will pop that in the next update in detail, but basically this afternoon consisted of soldering up the underframe pipework