My cousins presented me with a model of Blackmoor vale which had certainly had a rough time of it. It was missing both smoke deflectors, didn't run, had part of the raves on the tender snapped off, one ladder missing and one of the cylinder fairings missing. It was in a bit of a sorry state. I saw this as a good opportunity however to try my hand at fixing and repainting/ renaming/renumbering a loco.  I first took the body of the loco and found a loose connection to the pin that connected onto t