Hello all!
I've been quiet for a while, partly because not much has been going on, but also because my old phone was playing up, making posting pictures difficult.
Here's a quick summary of some rolling stock projects...
Ffestiniog Van 4's been in progress for a long time now, but is getting there. I've recently added lettering, beading around the windows, door handles and grab rails, footboards, and some light weathering. It's had a coat of varnish, so now I think the exterior is complete. Droplights, interior sides, interior painting, glazing, and detailing with figures etc to go now. That will take place over the winter so that the carriage can enter service next Spring.
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I ought to be focusing on finishing that, but I came across an "H Jones Engineering" kit for the FR's Goods Van 116 (or 99, as it's known these days) and couldn't resist. It's only £40, which includes running gear and fantastic replicas of the little couplings used on FR goods stock. I'll be constructing it in my own idiosyncratic way, including overlaying individual planks etc, but here's what it looked like when I opened the box:
- Van 116 - A.jpg (231.99 KiB) Viewed 2518 times
Shockingly, even for me, I got distracted from my distraction. I had the house to myself yesterday evening, and - with no competing demands on the kitchen table - I got stuck into another project - Wagon on a Work Night! Regular readers of this thread may recall that, a while back, I decided to see if I could build a WHR guards van in a weekend. I got off to a good start but the project eventually took at least 6 months to complete, so last night I tried again, this time with a Ffestiniog iron-bodied coal wagon.
At five o 'clock-ish I started with some photos, some sheets of plasticard, and a new blade in my Stanley knife:
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And, by 10 o'clock, I had this:
- Iron coal wagon 2.jpg (202.87 KiB) Viewed 2518 times
Not quite finished, but it's got wheels, and couplings, and so I could take it for a spin around the garden, so I'm calling that a success! I'll continue this evening with some more detail... It's a case of "more haste, less speed" really, because this morning someone contacted me with the actual dimensions of the wagon. I'd guesstimated them from phots, with the result that my version's a little big all over, but better over-scale than under, I always reckon...
More progress as it happens...
Cheers,
Andrew.
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