Coach works(6) : Guards Compartments ...

 After a quick fag-packet design, an hour or so cutting plasticard and sticking it together (sometimes a little adjustment needed), I finished of two guards compartments to go in the brake-third coaches; they have simple sliding doors aligned with seat positioning.

These drop into the coach, fitting flush with the clip-in glazing pieces.

the door lines up nicely with the gap between the seats ....

Coach works(5) : Guards Doors and Seating ...

Marked and scribed the edge of the guard's door on the sides of two brake 3rd carriages.

Cut the seating pieces up and refitted them so there is a gap for the guards compartment in the brake 3rds

Seating pieces slightly altered to give a better arrangement for the 'all third' carriage.

Next job, make up the guards compartment to fit in.

 

Coach works(4) : Roof - Rain Strips ...

The order for the styrene strip for the roof rain strips arrived this week....

First one cut to length and fixed in place ....

tricky job, once I'd got the scheme I added the second one for this roof and did the other two roofs.

Now I have underframes, running gear, couplings and roofs done;  the big job remaining is to do the coach bodies.

Coach works(3) : Those Darn Couplings ...

A picture note to myself to remind me what to cut off the end of each of the coaches for coupling clearance. 

• Extra support for the steps (still robust enough without)
• The cross bar

A nice little box of 2mm nuts and bolts arrived in the post, so now I can redo the connections of the couplings to the bogey wheel sets... right hand side is the new look....

Down the garage for a run test....

Plenty of room for the couplings with the rest of the veranda 'end-bits' added...

very tight but just enough room for the couplings to traverse across to negotiate the Radius 1 curves on my layout...

Thats sorted out the couplings. 

Styrene strip has been ordered for the roof rain strips and for detailing the coach sides. 

I've also spent some time working out how to do the coach side layout for the Brake Composite coach; I'm going to be lazy and give the guard a larger door, (avoiding a smaller window and filling/sanding etc - keeping it simple).