Saturday 29th - Change of plan

A good day with plenty achieved, despite my plans changing several times! Although I'm a bit out of practice at remembering to take many blog photos, hopefully you get the gist.

I was going to leave the RMB to others today, but we turned out to be a little short on numbers so I switched back and decided to get the Cotswold side into 2nd topcoat. Cream flatted back with orbital sander, crimson still to do...

Dave captured me in the process.

Then it turned out we had a distinct shortage of brushes for painting cream panels. Bother. I'll do the crimson then, order some emergency supplies and do the cream Tuesday.

Time to see what else was going on then. Bob was on ceiling painting in the RMB, now that we've removed the fluorescent strips in favour of the flying saucers

Phil was doing some repairs in the serving area in preparation for the new fridge/chiller being fitted.

While Robert and Chris continued the rebuild of the South vestibule.

Outside was not a pleasant day to be shunting, but the gang carried on anyway. Various wheel swaps were being undertaken...

And Mary came in for a bogie lift to resolve the flat that had developed on one of its tyres.

Also in the barn it was good to see James back and working on some more metal repairs for the BSK.

It might seem a bit early for cleaning windows on 4798, but there was years of ingrained brake dust on the windows that needed a lot of work to remove as a separate job to the usual post-painting cleaning when we get to that point, so Paul cracked on.

Inside Dave and Tony made a good impression on the ceiling painting.

Onto the Mink D then, Maurice cleaned up the North end vents.

The last few planks coming off, nearly there Paul.

With my carriage painting plans scuppered I moved back to the wagon, Paul captured my somewhat amused as to whether the ladder was really necessary here!

By the end of the day I had the inside...

And the outside of the frame at the South end in undercoat.