I have made a bit of progress this week, although most of my spare time has been spent drawing etches.
46037 now looks like this.
There is a little bit of overspray to tidy up but otherwise I am happy enough with the paint finish. The weathering will tone down the gloss, it is a bit shinny at the moment. I will be ordering some new glazing from MM1 next week, the original is looking a bit too cloudy.
37273 is now D6973, these are the transfers from Railtec
For some reason there are only 3 blue dots and all the photographic evidence I have collected is that 4 are needed. The tank gauges really do add that extra bit and are well worth getting.
I am in the middle of sorting out the buffer beams, these need to painted red, add in the steam heat pipe and remove the train air brake as these were not fitted until at least 1968. The multiple working receptor also needs moving forward about 1mm with a bit of plastic card.
Now for the next project, I bought this on Ebay maybe 5 years ago it even be 10 years ago. The kit has been put together well so far although there area few parts already fitted that will need to come off before it gets painted.
The big problem though is how to convert this to S7. The main driving wheels have brake actuators on both sides of them that connect to the brake blocks which are a push fit into the inner chassis, with everything set for a back to back of 29mm. There isn't really enough meat on the brake blocks to not push them all the way in and as I want to add some compensation to the bogies it needs a new inner chassis.