Saturday 1st - Undercoating in Earnest
A productive day in the paintshop with lots of hands on 1876. As ever when it comes to the major painting stages it always feels like we're making great progress.
And progress indeed was made - I finished off undercoating the Cotswold side, with the rather bright express red undercoat...
With a little help from Martin.
While Jeff and Bob were on the Malvern side doing much the same, Bob taking on the two large cream panels where the windows aren't.
A bit more to do on this side yet but nearly there for undercoat both sides.
Richard took on the North end with the dark grey undercoat.
The South end still needed a little bit of prep work by Tony, while Jeff did the last of the line marking.
Later on Ken was up on the scaffold working on the gangway connection.
All the way out to the barn and the Mink D where Paul made a start removing old planks.
The first new ones have been cut and Maurice was on the primer. I've not put the timber order in yet but we had a bit left over from the last couple of projects.
The new bogies for 4798 were receiving more clean up attention from the dirty gang.
Other work on 4798 was Phil on radiator covers.
After a very grey and damp photo charter on Friday with P&O as part of its send-off pre-overhaul, it was much brighter and bluer today and some more busy trains.
By the time I looked in on upholstery I'd missed most of the action, but Laura was still hard at work at the sewing machine.
Evidence of work on making more bags today.
Onto 35308, James was carrying on with his door metalwork repairs.
While Alan was letting some new metal in on the South end corner.
Today's woodworking activities, the new door liner for the door that James is working on, and parts for a storage box on the RBr.
Speaking of, finished, but still a bit of tinkering, as Richard fits the last stainless steel cover.
I'll finish off with a few of my pics from last weekend's gala, a very successful event all round:
