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Listening to two Poirot audiobooks later... hinges. DSC02105.resized.JPG I've noticed what may be the remains of marks on the roof for the cross-wise strips every few feet some Mk.1s have. Together with a very faint line along the side I'm wondering if someone hasn't taken Step 1 in the instruction ...

Well that idea crashed and burned, chopping up the strip created some shrapnel and some varying length hinges. Unfortunately filing down the length of bits of guitar string is an exercise in futility. Plan B then. Cut up 2mm lengths of plasticard, glue to body and then add bits of string. Eight out ...

These folks may be able to help : http://www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk/

What!! International Signed For, under 2Kg, 5-7 days - £7.40. Though Australia has a import/GST tax regime as absurd as the UK's is now, under A$1000 it should just be filling in a declaration (it says here, DHL). https://www.royalmail.com/sending/inter ... /australia

Had a bit of a Plan B moment regarding the hinges... a length of guitar string (good old 0.5mm brass rod is too large) glued to a strip of plasticard. How will it behave when being chopped up? Time to find out...

Much more marking out and it'll end up self-coloured in Post Office red livery. All the holes for door handles and bump-stops have been drilled. Whacking 0.5mm brass rod with a hammer does indeed produce nice handles for the right-hand doors (way too small to get a photo), I made them 3mmm long goin...

The painters & decorators have done their stuff, just transfers to add. As seems inevitable, there's no transfer set that exactly matches the period I'm after, as a BCO, but it looks like an earlier set can be cut up to get the required elements.

And so a new game... waiting for glue to dry

That's everything marked marked out. I've used a CD marking pen as it's leaves no marks, won't rub off, but primer will cover it. I didn't use a scriber as aluminium is way to easy to mark and difficult hide mistakes. On which, the roof is going to have to have a full complement of ventilators which...

So... after a ridiculous amount of staring and googling I got nowhere with finding any info about locations of door handles, hinges, etc. Then the little grey cells finally rallied together. A visit to Paul Bartlett's excellent site confirmed their efforts were not in vain (for a change). Looking at...

I fund myself ploughing through a lot of the books - one thing that sticks out is railcars, there were way more designs than I'd suspected. A couple of examples for the manufacturers to have a go at? Screenshot from 2023-08-25 14-54-42.png There's a silimlar AEC 3-car prototype too, very continental...

Though finding all sorts of useful info (see the BR Diagrams thread) I've still not found out where door handles/hand rails should go. And then I realised the same goes for the hinges, bump stops etc. For the ends (steps and handrails) EasyBuild BG instructions help, so one step forward. EasyBuild a...

A staggering resource if you are into making/buying something BR to an exact Diagram ('plans' to us mere mortals). And more - including a hand towel maintenance manual. Turns out they didn't just paint Newspapers on the side when BGs were moved to newspaper traffic - Guards compartment removed, long...

Step 1 : Drill holes for roof furniture, door handles, hand rails and, er, commode. Roof no probs, marks show where. The others... where? There's no marks on the body, the instructions just show an dimensionless sketch. Going to need some drawings I think. DSC02089.resized.JPG These are the instruct...