Great - thanks !
Now where did I put my spares box..............................

After a lot of burnishing with a fiberglass pen and more than a few layers of primer the top coat has a nice shine.

These now need the paint to cure and that can take several weeks, before any further paint is applied.

I will need to mask the end panels and paint them white then yellow.  I could have done this before the blue was applied, however the sprayed blue paint surface gives a better under surface for the yellow panels.

Nice job. Following with great interest. It'll be a while before I get round to projects again, but thinking I need this in my stash!

Looking really good, you're getting on with this really quickly. Well done.

Cheers, Timmo

This next stage just takes time a patience.  I'm blocking in white where I will need to paint bright colors, Yellow and Barbie Pink. 

There is still a bit of tidying up to do which I do with a cocktail stick dipped in Polycell brush cleaner.  Again this paint will need to cure before the next stage as I will need to use masking tape and I cannot risk the tape damaging the paint below it.

One advantage of having the side CAD profile is I have been able to cut a very accurate curve template.

Plugs arrived today from China    so I have wired in the Dapol Voyager light clusters.

A bit of paint to hide the resistors and some detail painting and the Chassis is complete.

Excellent progress, Shapeways report chassis in preparation so waiting and learning...
thanks
Robert

A quick update on the electrical couplings.  Once the silicone is firm I have wrapped the assembly in a heat shrink tube.  this makes it very robust and stable.

Hi ,
looking very good. Shapeways have advised that cannot or will not print the chassis units in WSF  as it fails minimum wall thickness test - despite having two.
It seems that the testing process is an evolving one so past performance is no indicator of future.  I can do a print anyway at my own risk .... with no comeback a twisted heap is all the state of the art machine produces...  ho hum.
At worst case all i need is the underbelly curved bits and could match onto 158/170 seat frame units from BR lines

Your 180 might well be the only one finished.     
Robert

I only use FUD or the new Super FUD so cannot comment, other than the FUD prints are fantastic if expensive.

Super FUD? Is that FXD, or is there a new material?

FXD

Transfer artwork update.

A few more steps.

Its amazing how many thin coats it takes to get a solid yellow.

The yellow area is oversize as there is a common masking line over the yellow and blue and to attempt to pre-mask it and hope to get it straight would be almost impossible.