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The saga…..has finished. Martin at work fixed the socket by tightening up the apertures with a pin. Chip refitted but got hot and the loco barely moved. Fresh chip fitted and all is fine.

IIRC it’s a TSO plus a rearranged BCK.

Just in case Bachmann don’t announce anything in N…….The BSO is a fairly easy cut and shut job……. Here is my exmover stained one.

I found a spare geared wheel set at work and that has been fitted.

A productive day at the Yorkshire area NGS meeting today. The first of the ferry vans is coming together, main body fitted onto the NGS Ferry van chassis.

Mmm the class 37 is still an issue. The decoder is very loose in the socket and not making proper contact. Not sure how I can correct this. Might have to unsolder the old one, which was fine, and swop them over. I could add some solder to the decoder pins to thicken them up……suggestions welcome.

Managed to find a correct wheel set and gear for the class 37 in one of the spares boxes at work. This has been fitted and the loco reassembled. Testing tomorrow.

As I can’t find my pack of LT roundal decals for the bus, I’ve ordered some more, so they’ll turn up when the replacements arrive. Today the windows and doors were masked up and sprayed silver for the vents and undercoat, then yellow and red for the doors. Side adverts added, I need to paint the seating too.

My poorly class 37 had its chip refitted, which is now a very loose fit in its new PCB. To get round this I bent the pins a bit which improved things. However after a short test run the dreaded clicking appeared. On checking the bogies one of the wheel sets has a split gear. Farish now have two different sets of geared wheels available for the Tractor, black or later white. Does anyone know if it’s just a material change and not a change in the number of teeth? It’s a current model class 37.

The poorly class 37 had its chip refitted, which is now a very loose fit in its socket. To get round this I bent the pins a bit which improved things. However after a test run the dreaded clicking appeared. On checking the bogies one of the wheel sets has a split gear. Farish now have two different sets of geared wheels available for the Tractor, black or later white. Does anyone know if it’s just a material change and not a change in the number of teeth? I’ve also posted this on the Farish forum.

The Metrobus painting is largely done. The grill and destination boards were all masked up and sprayed black. The window frame edges have also been blackened. Adverts, destination blinds and LT symbols to add, prior to a coat of satin varnish Window vents to do in silver before reassembly. Last job will be two part doors.

An email tonight from Chris Nevard with some of the photos taken a week ago. For obvious reasons I can’t show any, but they are stunning, especially the B&W ones.

The chassis for the ferry van was detached from its body and I thought, that’s useful…..the roof is screwed on and I can use that for the Italian one. So I undid the screws to find the roof is also glued on. Why both? I need to get the correct sized microstrip from work, so there won’t be any progress on the these for a few days.

Bus progress Some cream cleaner and cotton buds took off the four part doors printed on the glazing. The first of the Metrobus bodies has now been primered, dry overnight for the red coat tomorrow.

They will work on any DCC System, we use Gaugemaster / MRC in the shop.