47 712 ‘Lady Diana Spencer’ – I was extremely fortunate and honoured to be asked to volunteer on the restoration of the real Loco when she was purchased by The Crewe Diesel Preservation Group. To mark that period of time in my life, I decided to produce a 4mm model of her in roughly 1983, nearly ex-works guise and present it to the group. So the model I chose to use is a ViTrains Class 47, which has been completely stripped to the plastic, fully detailed, re-sprayed and very lightly weathered (but still using my bespoke method of weathering!) I replaced the ViTrains buffers in favour of some Brass sprung versions and completed them by representing ‘buffer grease’ on the faces. She has been Laserglazed all the way around and this can be purchased from the excellent Extreme Etchings range.