Those small details!

With the certainty that the Lima DMU is working it is time to bring this project to an end. There are still some jobs to do including some passengers and drivers at each end. I already had the passengers in stock as outlined in an earlier post so these were brought out and several seated figures chosen to spend the rest of their plastic lives riding on the railway! 

A dab of superglue on their backsides saw them secured in place.

The one thing I could not find in my pack of seated people was a pair of suitable drivers. A search through my collection of bits from years ago uncovered these two figures which are the old Airfix mouldings. Whilst not posed in a seated position I will cut their legs off so they fit into the cabs - Ouch!

Another detail that I noted on the real DMU was a metal mesh over the windows in the luggage compartment which Lima had not replicated.

I had some plastic woven mesh that would do the job so a bead of Glue and Glaze was run around the inside of the plastic window.

 Whilst from the inside, the mesh looks a bit strange.....

.....from the outside it looks good.

I also got the chrome pen out and highlighted the grab and door handles which just adds that little bit of extra detail that stands out.

 Just a few more small jobs like these to finish and then this project will be complete!