Hi Ken
This was the 7th one of these I've made.... and I have one more to make up.
Just one more and I'll have all the roof fans I'll need to cover all the 33's I own so far.
As for the next installment, I'm planning on filming it today, so it should be next week that it appears on my youtube channel.
I'm waiting for Shawplan to make the bodyside grill, because having a see-through roof grill will look odd with a solid bodyside grill.
Fortunately, chatting to Brian, I know it's up near the top of his list, with a couple of failed test etches already being attempted so far, however, PPD have got a new way to transfer the drawing to the brass at a higher resolution, so it won't require him redrawing the design for the etch (which take up time that he has to prioritise for other things).
What I'll do, it prepare the inside of the grills so when they come out, they can just be overlaid over the hole and inner framework.
There's plenty of other work to be done before that though, such as doing the chassis and bogies, and electronics.
The next 33's I'll be doing are the 5x Class 33/1's which willbe backdated to 33/0's.
I bought them before the revised 33/0 came out, but they fixed the roof dome on the cab while adding new errors on the roof itself.... so the work is relevant.
By the time I have all my 33's finished, I'll have a fleet that looks like this:
33008 'Eastleigh" in BR Green (1992 condition)
33019 'Griffon' in Civil Engineers
33046 'Merlin' in Civil Engineers
33050 'Isle of Grain' in RF Construction
33053 in RF Construction
33109 in BR Blue
33114 'Ashford 150' in Network SouthEast
33118 in Civil Engineers
33202 'The Burma Star' in Civil Engineers.
Cheers
Dave