More slow progress on the T1 and E2
The T1 is now painted, lined and lettered. It's slowly having detailed added - mostly stuff that would have been in the way whilst I lined it, such as the clack valves, tank fillers, whistle etc. The lettering is by HMRS, I also cheated and used their boiler bands.
This photo shows the current state of play - sorry about the workbench clutter!
The next step will be to weather it - then fit the handrails.
The E2 is ready for priming - the last few days have seen endless pipes added under the footplate As I mentioned before, I struggled to find multiple pictures of the same loco in BR condition. So it's been done from several different photos of different engines, and isn't guaranteed to be 100% accurate (given that a lot of the pipework looks distinctly home made, especially the vacuum and heat pipes, which are later additions).
It now looks very much like an E2, in a way that the Hornby original never did. It will have a coat of primer in the next couple of days, and then I'll see all of the imperfections, lumps of glue, dodgy filler etc.
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