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Evening all. Not much to report, just popping in to say hi. Have been doing some further work on a couple of OO scale passenger car conversions - based on old Airfix MK2s, one a Brake Second Open (a bit like a Combine on US rails) and a First Open. These are being converted into a Driving Brake Second (Cab car) and an RFO (food service/buffet car), the latter's easy as it just needs three windows filling and a repaint, the former's had one end chopped off and a set of whitemetal castings added to provide the new cab end. Hornby offer the Class 86 electric loco along with the First and Standard open cars for this paint scheme (Anglia Railways) but not the RFO or DBSO, I have the loco so am slowly working on converting the cars to match, will post some pictures when they're done - right now the DBSO needs to be stripped back to bare plastic and repainted properly, while the modifed side of the RFO is in white undercoat. Filling and sanding the windows has taken a while but I think it looks ok now, so ready to proceed to top coat when I get round to ordering the right paint. Jim, I couldn't agree more about engineers being required to use the product before it goes into production! Have had to deal with more than a few things that would have failed this test, including a home sand-blasting kit that lacked a nozzle (it had a brass blanking plug where the sand was supposed to come out...) and DVD players where all the controller buttons were tiny and grouped so close together you needed a chopstick to press them! Well, can't think of anything else, bye for now. Welcome to the new people by the way, hope you like it here, seems a decent crowd!
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