Much as I quite liked the accidental JPS tribute look of my 3F (Fans of retro Formula 1 will know what I mean) My 3f has now been painted and weathered.

I found this image of 43687 at New Street on station pilot duties around 1957. The loco was allocated to Bournville shed at the time so it seemed suitable to me. Image ©John Turner 53A Models of Hull Collection and used with his kind permission.

Below a few images of the finished model.

Just waiting for a Modelu crew to arrive.  Does anyone know how the cab rain sheets were attached to the tender on these locos?  Ive found several images of them with the sheets stored on the edge of the cab roof but none with them in use.  I guess back in the day people didn’t go out to take photos of mundane freight locos if it was raining!