Hi, and welcome to the 3rd entry on my blog. I have made lots of progress this week but first..

Note to self: Save draft very often.

Right!

So the first thing I did after the last blog post was to focus on the interior. I cut out allot of the parts which chiltern took out and painted. As painting is a rather a long process I will just show you the finished image.

For the tabled I printed out the design on a glossy card and stuck it on with pritt stick. I removed the unwanted structure with a mixture of scissors, Stanley knife and filing.

I have actually changed my mind and decided to put people in the train now! I have ordered cheap(ish) people from china. Some have arrived very quickly. So far I have only put people in the business zone seats.

The next step was to cut out the old slam doors and put in my 3D printed doors. I did this by sawing with a Junior Hack saw, then filing and then using poly cement to hold it in place. I did have to use filler to plug up gaps after.

After this it was the painting of the coaches in the following steps:

1. Interior Prime
   
2. Interior Paint
   
3. Exterior Primer
   
4. Exterior Paint
   

and that looked like this...

Then I prepared it for the darker grey spray. I did doors separately to the window area. Unfortunately I didn't take any photos straight after spray but I do have a prep one.

So after the exteria has been painted I used some decals from r3sprays to add the branding. Unfortunately this was my first time using transfers so I messed up quite a few. But I managed to do it. I used the method described on the airfix site of: Decalfix, Gloss. Yes this method does give Hornby more money but I used the Tamiya gloss

So now I had been waiting for some etchings to come in the post to start the other 3 coaches which have toilets in them. They just came recently so I started putting them on yesterday.

Firstly I filled the window, then I took the filler out, cut it and glued it back in.

And then I stuck the frame in place, filed down the glue and put filler in again to plug up a few gaps.

And that is where I am up to now.

The next stage will be to smooth off the filler and then paint these other coaches.

I am going to put lighting in these coaches however I am still waiting for some components to arrive.

Now I know in my blog posts I do seem to just say what I do with very little emotion. I'm not sure why but I don't really have too much to say.

If you have any questions or suggestions for the project please leave a comment.

This project has already done WAY WAY WAY over budget. I am too scared to continue adding up prices. It seems as any products sold for modelling they think "Modelling product: Slap on the word "Modelling"; double the price and half the quantity"

The etchings I have for the windows are actually etching for a sleeper coach and they are from shawplan. I have windows from shawplan too to put back into the coaches however I am not at this stage yet.

Thanks for reading and bye for now.