User:Hilbert Herringgull

"Great Northern - www.a1/1trust.com ...?!" I checked all was well before re-masking the whole model and applying Gamesworkshops Chaos Black Acrylic spray to the relevant areas of the model.

The result, is rather nice if I do say so myself!

I'm thrilled at the finish of the model. Graeme King designed this conversion kit supremely well, and for someone as ham fisted as me to actually make something like this says much of his design skills.

I'll be painting the bufferbeam red, and fitting the buffers, coupling and vacuum pipe before I head up to High Wycombe to use HWMRC's test track for final fettling and testing.

For now, I'm feeling very happy with the finish of the model. I can't wait to paint it blue, apply the transfers and lightly weather it. The culmination of a project started nearly six years ago is coming closer and closer.

A quick footnote: these are not the nameplates I will be using, I am waiting on straight sided ones, but I bought these as a set of spares in case I build a dark green one at a later date. These are a set from Modelmaster, where my straight sided nameplates are also on order with.

Until next time, good night.