Fairlie easy...

The single Fairlie arrives in the 'paint shop'

it came apart nice and easy, just two screws and a nut & bolt.

The window frames on the front of the cab were nearly falling off, so I removed them and re-glued them into position.

There were no window frames on the rear of the cab, so I made up some from strips of plasticard...

There was one other bit missing, a Salter style safety valve...a bit of brass wire, plastic tube and plasticard was used to make one up....

The final paint scheme is a dark grey roof, maroon sides, boiler top and cylinder covers; black for the footplate, smokebox and water tank tops; plus two coats of gloss varnish. Out on the garage layout .....

At work on a passenger service.....

Paint shop progress....

Out of the paint shop... 

The Playmobil Diesel, which thankfully went back together fairly easily (after taking it to bits paint the loco body). Out on the garage layout in its new colour of olive green ....

I did a quick run round to check the sound and lights work properly ....

Next into the paint shop....

The single Fairlie, it looks rather dull in black so it is going to get a new look (also I'll add a missing safety valve as well).

Yellow Diesel off to the paint shop.....

I decided I wanted to paint up my yellow Playmobil diesel loco; so I thought nice and easy job to take the loco body off .... Not so easy as I thought - it took me 20 minutes 😡... I broke some of the tab clips off and finally got it all in bits ....

The chassis replaced and electrics reconnected - it still works  ! 😀. 

now to decided on a colour scheme...... it won't be yellow...

Sunny Sunday (16) ....a selection of 'brown' wagons...

After a spot of leaf wrangling around the garden; time to run a train ... today a selection of brown rolling stock. The tram loco pulls a Plateway Models van, with the new completed bogey open wagon (GRS kit) and the bogey van (also a GRS kit)....

WagonWorks : Bogey Goods Open Wagon (4)...ready for service...

 The bogey goods wagon has been through the paint shop; transfers for the lettering arrived yesterday and I put them on the wagon today.

Sunny Sunday (15) .... Parcels Train

A sunny Sunday,  however before any trains it was time to get the leaf sucker-upper out and clear away leaves around the garden and on the track.

Gardening chore done,  getting a bit cloudy though but I had time to run a battery powered R/C loco pulling a parcels train...

WagonWorks : Bogey Goods Open Wagon (3)...the fiddly bits

 The build continues.... more exact measuring required, holes to be drilled and metal rod to be bent...

Under frame bits added with some wire to provide bracing....

The ends done, bracing and part of the tarpaulin cover support mechanism

The main tricky bit was bending the metal rod for the tarpaulin cover support, the hoops to support it were then added..

The door detail, hinges and bracing, I was short of some bracing bar strip (there were a couple of bits missing from the kit ), so I made up some from plasticard.....

Door handles added, these were made from brass rod ( took about 7 attempts to bend 2 suitable handles)

Carefully marked up the position of the diagonal side braces....

cut strips provided to size and added.them ..

Onto the couplings ....a extension made for the bogey 'crafted' out of plasticard  ...

All done, quite satisfying to complete the build of the kit...

A quick test that I've got the couplings with sufficient clearance around the curve was satisfactory...

Now its off to the paint shop.... plus I'll need to get some transfers for the lettering etc.