Saturday 25th - You missed a bit!

 I did miss a bit today, certainly in terms of blogging duties, sorry to those I didn't catch, I was on a mission! Varnishing fresh paint work is not easy as you can't really see where you've been, and it's very easy to miss bits here too. But after I finished off the lettering pictured and some left over lining out, I managed to get the rest of the Cotswold side in 1st coat of varnish:

Accompanying me on signwriting duties today was Pam who wanted to have a go:

Jo had delivered two new Quad Royal poster boards for the end of Broadway station to be lettered up in the early GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY style. This is a good style to start with for a beginner, and Pam did a great job:

So good in fact I let her do the second one!

Out in the barn brisk progress on the FOWS Toad, as large swathes of it saw paint today. Richard with the primer on the bar wood, Maurice on the under with the undercoat:

Paul was on the other side also with the undercoat:

The compartments fitting out on the CK continues with Steve here fixing some wooden trim in place:

While Robert and Ben had a crack at fitting the next door liner:

I believe by the end of the day they had success.

With just 4 or 5 RBr chairs left to upholster and the carriage itself still a long way off(!), there's no harm in having a change to make things interesting, today it was a chair from one of the diesel locos in Jenny and John's sights for recovering:

Running a department the size of C&W takes some doing, and there's a hell of a lot of behind the scenes work that goes on well apart from the practical aspects of restoring the rolling stock. So while upstairs I caught a usually unseen management meeting held this morning:

Thanks chaps, for herding us all so we can enjoy our hobby! :-)

And a quickly grabbed pic of the green Ivatt to finish off with, it makes a nice change to hear that LMS hooter compared to the usual Swindon whistle: