Tuesday 14th - Top-coating complete

 A great day on the second top-coating front on the Bubble car, by mid-afternoon it was virtually all completed. 

Maurice and Stu were the early starters on the Malvern side:

Soon joined by Phil:

And Richard, each of whom started off painting a cab end then worked their way round to complete the Cotswold side:

Ian worked around us continuing the undercoat cream on the backs of the doors. I too joined in on the Cotswold side doing the lower panels, but it soon became apparent that we had quite enough painters at work, with most panels done it started to get a bit crowded!

So I diverted to prep work on the Toad, where Paul was cleaning up the handrails:

Bob was sanding down the South end:

And Richard was doing some minor timberwork repairs on the more weathered Cotswold side:

I therefore picked the veranda end to attack with the pad sander and wire wheel:

Yes those cracks in the end stanchions will be welded up! It does seem to be a weak point on Toads, the other one has clearly been repaired there in the past as well.

Elsewhere Tony started by finishing cleaning up the luggage rack from the CK he was working on on Saturday, then moving onto a compartment door from the same coach:

Meanwhile Dave was on a recovery expedition in one of our storage coaches for some replacement first class seats - the ones in the BCK have been condemned by our upholstery department. Dave C took the photo, and it looks like Dave was successful in his mission to fins something that matched:

With such a beautiful sunny day, we did of course watch some trains as well, P&O and Foremarke Hall on duty: