Evening all

I've taken advantage of the rotten weather to have a very relaxing weekend indoors making progress with the auto trailer.

When I last posted back in January, it had been stripped of all paint and had the detailing added from the Dart kit.

Roll forward some 10 months (yikes) and things have moved on a bit. The body finally got sprayed all over carmine and I've fitted the Lazerglaze windows from Shawplan. Funny thing was one side needed virtually every piece of glass filing down. The other side virtually nothing!

It is a faff but it is worth it. I was really dreading the top lights but in reality these were the easiest to fit.

The cab's been detailed and I've got some passengers to fit. They've been primed and I'll paint them this week.

I was going to fit Bill Bedford bogies but as the auto trailer has repeatedly made it from one side of Wheal Elizabeth to the other without falling off I came to the conclusion that it was going to be a lot of effort for no improvement.

The roof still needs another cost of paint and I need to apply transfers. Anyone got any ideas what font & size the running numbers were?

There are a few little details to fit but nothing major and I'm quite pleased with how this has turned out, given I think it was 33 years ago that I bought it!

All being well it'll be in service at Warley at the end of the month, along with the Railbus.