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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.

Runs OK sounds OK if it’s a TXS version. Ridiculously light, find some lead weights and it will run better and pull more. Remember it’s the Lima Body and chassis with a newer motor.

A day at the NGS Yorkshire meeting, didn’t get as much done as I wanted as I’d left one important thing behind and brought the wrong sized microstrip with me. Latest little project is to build a couple of Italian ferry vans using the NGS BR ferry van chassis……forgot to bring the chassis so I marked up the sides leaving plenty of trimming room at the ends. Doors and top runner added was all I could do. The two MCW Metrobuses conversions had some more progress, including front windscreen cut to fit.

My class 37 failed at the York show, dismantling it the motor worked fine which left the chip and PCB as suspects. The loco wouldn’t work on DC with a blanking plate and the chip worked OK elsewhere so a new PCB was ordered from Bachmann on Friday. This arrived Monday, so far so good……however when fitting it firstly one motor contact fell off quickly followed by the other. Not good. I found a bit of fine NS wire and made up some new contacts with these. The loco is now all up and running…at least on DC.

I had a double take originally, thinking it was 4mm scale. Excellent work. Are the retaining rods for the vents just plasticard too?

As Paul said they were from the Ultima / Etched Pixels detailing kit for the Mill Lane sidings ferry van kit. The Etched Pixels etchings have gone to the 2mm Association and they have them listed on the website. The ventilators are not mentioned.

Yes it was.

Is that a 3D printed model? Looks great.